Đỗ Quang Giai Geneva agreement was signed to temporarily divide the country at the 17th parallel, he fled to South Vietnam with his family. After moving to Saigon, he worked at different places then retired. He later came out of retirement to work for Hoàng Kim Quy, an entrepreneur and businessman whom he knew from Hanoi. During that time he studied English and eventually became chairman of the Vietnam British Association and received an honorary medal of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He is probably the only Vietnamese who received an OBE. He then worked for the U.S Embassy with Dr.
1954 Geneva Conference 1954 Geneva Conference The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. The part of the conference on the Korean question ended without adopting any declarations or proposals, so is generally considered less relevant. The Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling of French Indochina proved to have long-lasting repercussions, however. The crumbling of the French Empire in Southeast Asia would create the eventual states of the Democratic Republic of