* * * * * Flag of Vietnam. Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) Tuesday, 28 th November 1995 Hanoi was occupied by the French in 1873 and was the capital of French Indochina after 1887. The city was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1940 and liberated in 1945, when it briefly held the seat of the Viet Minh government after Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the independence of Vietnam. Sadly, the French returned and reoccupied the city in 1946. After nine years of fighting between the French and Viet Minh forces, Hanoi emerged as the capital of an independent North Vietnam in 1954. Following the end of the Vietnam War, with the U.S.,...