He chose Ho Chi Minh City, then known as Saigon, as his departure point because it served as the gateway to the southern Vietnamese region and hosted numerous large shipping companies operating the ...

The Colombo Powers Conference provided the momentum for Asian-African and led to 1955 Bandung Conference (Excerpted from the ...

In the summer of 1876, rebel French poet Arthur Rimbaud arrived on the Indonesian island of Java, enlisting in the colonial ...

China has unveiled an ambitious road map to surpass the United States and become the world leader in space science by 2050. The national development programme for space science was released on ...

PARIS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA), opens new tab is planning to buy a 50% stake in the leasing unit of Chinese carmaker Guangzhou Automobile Group (601238.SS), opens new tab (GAC ...

COGNAC, France - In this grape-growing region of western France, where brandy producers are fretting over the fallout from a trade dispute between the European Union and China, Christophe ...

The race-fit French Dynamite dominated the Grade 3 BetVictor Chase at Punchestown. Mark Walsh's mount made most of the running and found plenty after the last to beat last year's winner Minella Indo ...

The country consists of more than 600 islands spread out across the western Pacific Ocean and is made up of four island ...

As China seeks to punish Taiwan's president for rejecting Beijing's claim of sovereignty over the self-governed island, FRANCE 24's François Picard is joined by Jean-François di Meglio ...

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FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney asks Harvard Kennedy School's Rana Mitter about the significance and timing of the drills.