The programme featured songs and dances praising the fighting spirit, strong will and bravery of Vietnamese soldiers, thus encouraging patriotism and a strong sense of protecting the country among armed forces and people.

A performance staged at the arts programme held in Hanoi on December 19 to mark the 74th founding anniversary of Vietnam People’s Army.

The same day, the Phu Yen provincial Party Committee, High Command of Border Guards, and Youth Union hosted a ceremony to honor outstanding young soldiers of the locality.

A gathering of retired army officers was recently organized in Da Nang city, during which the participants reviewed the glorious tradition of Vietnam People’s Army and stressed the importance of consolidating and enhancing national defence, security, political stabilization, and social order.

A seminar themed ‘Forever shining virtues of Uncle Ho's soldiers’ took place in Hanoi yesterday morning. The event was held jointly by the Quan Doi Nhan Dan (People’s Army) newspaper in collaboration with the Department of Information and Training under the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army.

The seminar heard 30 speeches by scientists and researchers shedding light on the great army values of Vietnamese soldiers and also promoting the campaign of studying and following President Ho Chi Minh's thought, ethics, and style.

A symposium was also held in Da Nang city yesterday to review the theory and practical situation of national military and defence over the past 30 years of implementing the Platform on construction in the transitional period to socialism.

A Vietnamese UN soldier teaches peace

'Education is a part of peacekeeping,' says Lieutenant Colonel Le Ngoc Son, who voluntarily taught children unable to attend school in the Central African Republic.

 

Progammes supports needy children and soldiers in Spratly Archipelogo

The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) organized a programme in Hanoi on June 16, to introduce businesses and benefactors to support activities for children living in special and difficult circumstances.

 

Policy beneficiary families to receive gifts on Fallen Soldiers' Day

President Tran Dai Quang recently inked decisions to bestow the title of Heroic Vietnamese Mother, Resistance War Medal and Order, Independence Order, and present gifts to beneficiary families on the occasion of the Wounded and Fallen Soldiers' Day (July 27).

 

Art programme marks Wounded and Fallen Soldiers’ Day

A special art programme was held at Hanoi's Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Labour Cultural Palace, on July 25, to mark the 71st anniversary of Wounded and Fallen Soldiers’ Day (July 27, 1947 – 2017).

 

The woman who devotes her youth to the search for fallen soldiers’ tombs

Ngo Thi Thuy Hang has voluntarily spent the years of her youth searching for the tombs of fallen Vietnamese soldiers for more than a decade.

 

Source: NDO