The official military of Vietnam, the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), was founded on December 22, 1944 by President Ho Chi Minh. The army, then known as the Armed Propaganda ...

Laos is a landlocked country located in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma (Myanmar) and China to the northwest, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's five oceans after the Atlantic and Pacific. Bordered on the north by Asia, Africa to the west, the South ...

Cambodia is a nation in Southeast Asia with a long southern coast on the Gulf of Thailand. Cambodia shares borders with Vietnam to the east, Laos to the north, and ...

The Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: đồng bằng sông Cửu Long “Nine Dragon river delta”) is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through ...

Marguerite Duras was a French writer and filmmaker.

In medicine, the term opiate describes any of the narcotic opioid alkaloids found as natural products in the opium poppy plant, as well as many semisynthetic chemical derivatives of ...

The Mergui Archipelago (also Myeik Archipelago or Myeik Kyunzu; Burmese: မြိတ်ကျွန်းစု) is an archipelago in far southern Myanmar. It consists of more than 800 islands ...