and the area near Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon. Additionally, people can watch the parade from high-rise buildings such as Diamond Plaza, M Plaza, and the Sofitel Saigon Hotel.

Credit: AP On April 30, 1975, the monsoon rains had arrived and Arnett watched in the early morning hours from the slippery roof of the AP’s building ... renamed Ho Chi Minh City as soon as ...

Surging Vietnamese nationalism appeared on the streets, as thousands gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war.

We’re soaked to the bone as we pull up outside a restaurant called Oc Loan on a small side street in Ho Chi Minh City. Water troughs are set out like street stalls, displaying snails bigger than ...

These structures, now surrounded by a modern metropolis, tell the story of the nation that has evolved in the decades since ...

From the afternoon of April 29, hundreds of people began spreading mats and bringing food and supplies to key streets in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, preparing to stay overnight ... the following ...

HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - Vietnam is celebrating the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday with a grand military parade and an air show 50 years after the fall of Saigon, the event that marked ...

1975 when Communist-run North Vietnam seized Saigon, the capital of the US-backed South, renamed Ho Chi Minh City shortly after the war in honour of the North's founding leader.