Independence

Each city and city in Vietnam has its Hai Ba Trung Street named after the Trung sisters who led a briefly successful rise up in 40 AD and killed themselves when the rebellion was quashed by the...

Globalisation and the WTO

In 1986, doi moi laid the foundation for Vietnam’s resurgence. Since then, successive Celebration Congresses and plenums have re-affirmed their commitment to opening as much as the world in both...

A Communal Society

The unique Lac Viet inhabitants of Vietnam had been tribal folks residing in large clans. The patriarchal clan structure, with deference toward elders and filial piety as primary virtues, was the...

Colonial Time

Vietnam’s first encounter with the French was in the eighteenth century, initially by missionaries, but later militarily when Pigneau de Behaine, the Bishop of Adran

History Overview

Vietnam’s history is complicated - a minestrone of kingdoms and dynasties, invasions and resistance, independence and occupation.

Government Policy

A Central Committee of about 125 senior Get together members meets twice a year and elects a government body, the Politburo, with powers to provoke policy and direct the government.

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam