Phnom Penh, Aug. 18 -- The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia held a seminar on August 18 to review Vietnam's 80-year journey of safeguarding independence, national reunification, and development, as well as its ties with Cambodia. At the event, Thong Mengdavid, an expert in geopolitics and international security at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, stressed that the August Revolution in 1945 and the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) under President Ho Chi Minh marked the beginning of a resilient struggle for independence and national unity. This historic milestone not only inspired liberation movements across Indochina, including Cambodia, but also mirrored the shared aspirations for fre...