Jean-Marie Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France, where Holocaust denial ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, an unabashed nationalist and founder of the French far-right National Rally party, has died aged 96.

The National Rally, though having expelled him in 2015, hailed Le Pen in a statement, saying he had defended “the idea of French greatness with all his soul and at the risk of his own life.” ...

Here is a short history of the French far-right National Front, whose historic leader and co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen died ...

Sure, I went to Asia several times but the closest I got to France was looking over the northern border of Vietnam (formerly French Indochina) from the modern Chinese side. Then, an old friend ...

PHNOM PENH: Fireworks, neon lights and music illuminated the skylines of Indochina's capitals as revellers ... who was born in Cambodia and has Vietnamese and French ancestry.

French Indo-China, and the Dutch East Indies. By the early 20th century, French colonial administrators noted the existence of a Chinatown in Phnom Penh, or more accurately, Chinatowns.

The French Foreign Legion is regarded as the toughest ... were deployed in Algeria, Morocco and Indochina. And they were often associated with the dubious reputation of being a hotbed for criminals.

For seven years of war, although it is only 30 miles from the Chinese border. Laichau remained in French hands. Last week it was lost to Ho Chi Minh’s Communists without a fight. Laichau had ...

Sainteny served before the Indo-China war as French Commissioner in Hanoi, and wrote a bitterly anti-U.S., pro-Ho book about it. He was subsequently wounded by an exploding Communist hand grenade ...