The portion east of Interstate 5 and north of South Lane Street has been dubbed " Little Saigon " because of the high concentration of Vietnamese businesses there.

During 19th century, the kingdom of Cambodia had been reduced into a vassal state to the kingdom of Siam which had annexed its western provinces, including Angkor and growing influence from the Vietnamese Nguyen Dynasty threatened the eastern portion of the country.

The objective of the campaign was to prevent the transit of People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) personnel and supplies on the logistical corridor known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ( the Truong Son Road to the North Vietnamese ) that ran from the southwestern Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) through the southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos and into the Republic of Vietnam ( South Vietnam ).

The Đại Việt ( Vietnamese ) annexed the land occupied by the Cham during conquests in the 15th century, and by the 18th century had also annexed the southern portion of the Khmer Empire, resulting in the current borders of Vietnam.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

In 1981 Cambodia opened a newly repaired section of National Route 1 which runs southeast from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border.

* 1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian – Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

Also, of serious concern were the Vietnamese takeover in Phnom Penh, the China-Vietnam border war, the overthrow of Idi Amin in Uganda, the North-South Yemen dispute, troubles in Pakistan, border clashes between Libya and Egypt, the Sandinista takeover in Nicaragua, and the Soviet movement of combat troops to Cuba during the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II.

While Sihanouk was out of the country on a trip to France, anti-Vietnamese rioting took place in Phnom Penh, during which the North Vietnamese and NLF embassies were sacked.

At the instigation of the Phnom Penh regime, thousands of Vietnamese also were driven out of Cambodia.

In May Cambodian and Vietnamese representatives met in Phnom Penh in order to establish a commission to resolve border disagreements.

In May 1978, on the eve of So Phim's Eastern Zone uprising, Radio Phnom Penh declared that if each Cambodian soldier killed thirty Vietnamese, only 2 million troops would be needed to eliminate the entire Vietnamese population of 50 million.

After a seventeen-day campaign, Phnom Penh fell to the advancing Vietnamese on January 7, 1979.

A force of North Vietnamese quickly overran large parts of eastern Cambodia reaching to within of Phnom Penh before being pushed back.

Despite continuing reports of clashes between the Khmer Rouge troops and the ANS, which the Khmer Rouge generally blamed on the Vietnamese, the two groups were able to coordinate operations during 1987, attacking the town of Battambang and arranging joint patrols as far as Phnom Penh.

In late 1978, the Vietnamese military rushed to Phnom Penh quickly and ended the Khmer Rouge regime.

* May 9 – U. S. Navy attack helicopters are the first American aircraft to reach Phnom Penh during the American and South Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.

The Phnom Penh version of kuyteav ( called hu tieu Nam Vang by the Vietnamese ) is the most extravagant, often containing some or all of the following toppings: pork belly, ground pork, pigs blood jelly, chopped pork offal such as intestine, heart, liver and lung, roasted duck, Mekong river prawns, fish cake and squid.

Following the Vietnamese invasion and the establishment of a pro-Vietnamese regime in Phnom Penh, Sen was to re-establish his control over the Khmer Rouge forces, now operating against the Vietnamese and the forces of the People's Republic of Kampuchea from bases in the Cardamom Mountains.

In April 2001, the Government of Free Vietnam was alleged to have caused a bomb to explode at the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh, injuring a guard.

Svay Pak is an ethnically Vietnamese village located in the Russey Keo District of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The standard is based on Phnom Penh speech, which, due to the city's status as the national capital, has been modestly affected by recent French and Vietnamese influence.

On 6 January 1978, Vietnamese forces were only 38 kilometers ( 24 mi ) from Phnom Penh ; however, the Kampuchean government remained defiant and the Vietnamese leadership realised they would not secure their political objective and decided to withdraw their troops.

On 8 January 1979, a pro-Vietnamese People's Republic of Kampuchea ( PRK ) was established in Phnom Penh, marking the beginning of a ten-year Vietnamese occupation.

The Vietnamese railway network.

The Vietnamese railway network has a total length of, dominated by the single track North-South Railway running between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

There were 278 stations on the Vietnamese railway network as of 2005, most of which are located along the North-South line.

The Vietnamese railway network is owned and operated by the state-owned enterprise Vietnam Railways ( VNR ), which operates a number of different subsidiaries involved in construction, communications, training, and other activities connected to railway maintenance.

There are also plans to build a high-speed railway to Pingxiang on the Vietnamese border.

Today, the Vietnamese community has become perhaps more prominent, centred in the area closer to the railway station.

Opposite the railway station in Railway parade there are three Vietnamese grocery stores, and a Vietnamese / Chinese restaurant named Cam Ranh, colloquially known to locals as the " Welcome welcome my friend " restaurant.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

In December 1967 Washington Post journalist Stanley Karnow was told by Sihanouk that if the US wanted to bomb the Vietnamese communist sanctuaries, he would not object, unless Cambodians were killed.

The exclusionary position of Kuhn and Benedict would be vindicated when André-Georges Haudricourt published on Vietnamese tonogenesis in 1954.

The agreement stipulated that if U. S. and South Vietnamese forces invaded North Vietnam, the Chinese would respond by loaning pilots to the North.

By 1970, President Richard Nixon initiated a Plan of Vietnamization, which would remove the US from the Vietnam War and return the responsibility of defense back to the South Vietnamese.

No international relief would come until the Vietnamese army invaded in 1979 and liberated the country.

Conein provided a group of South Vietnamese generals with US $ 40, 000 to carry out the coup with the promise that U. S. forces would make no attempt to protect Diệm.

Upon learning of Diệm's ouster and assassination, Hồ Chí Minh reportedly stated: “ I can scarcely believe the Americans would be so stupid .” The North Vietnamese Politburo was more explicit :“ The consequences of the 1 November coup d ' état will be contrary to the calculations of the U. S. imperialists ... Diệm was one of the strongest individuals resisting the people and Communism.

The U. S. and South Vietnamese expected that an announced seven-day truce would be observed during Vietnam's main holiday. A U. S. propaganda leaflet urges Viet Cong to defect using the Chiêu Hồi Program.

The effect of this is that the Vietnamese New Year would fall on January 21, 1985, whereas the Chinese New Year would fall on February 20, 1985, a one-month difference.

By July 1974, the Vietnamese leadership had decided to set the victory year to 1975, instead of 1976 as originally planned, because they believed an earlier Vietnamese unification would put Vietnam in a stronger position against Chinese and Soviet influence in the region.

" Lê promised the Vietnamese people in 1976 that each family would own a radio set, refrigerator and TV within ten years ; he seemed to believe he could easily integrate the South Vietnamese consumer society with industrial North Vietnam.

The basic history of the Accords included: release of POWs within 80 days ; ceasefire to be monitored by the International Commission of Control and Supervision ( ICC ); free and democratic elections to be held in South Vietnam ; U. S. aid to South Vietnam would continue ; and North Vietnamese troops could remain in South Vietnam.

Diệm became very unpopular during the Buddhist crisis of 1963 ; the U. S. informed the Vietnamese generals ( through the CIA ) that it would not object if Diệm were to be overthrown.

In 1962, Nhu began work on the ambitious Strategic Hamlet Program, an attempt to build fortified villages that would provide security for rural Vietnamese.

Nhu's motive was to shift the responsibility for a violent operation that would anger the Vietnamese public and the American officials onto the army.

Westmoreland was convinced that the Vietnamese communists could be destroyed by fighting a war of attrition that, theoretically, would render the Vietnam People's Army unable to fight.

However, the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam ( NLF ) were able to dictate the pace of attrition to fit their own goals: by continuing to fight a guerrilla war and avoiding large-unit battles, they denied the Americans the chance to fight the kind of war they were best at, and they ensured that attrition would wear down the American public's support for the war faster than them.

Even as he oversaw a continued buildup, Clifford preferred to emphasize the points Johnson had made in his March 31, 1968 address: that the South Vietnamese army could take over a greater share of the fighting, that the administration would place an absolute limit on the number of U. S. troops in Vietnam, and that it would take steps, including the bombing restrictions, to reduce the combat level.