Dien Bien, once a ferocious battlefield, is undergoing a visible overhaul, with gains in economic growth, poverty reduction, infrastructure, and social welfare that lay the groundwork for a new expansion phase.

Politburo member, Permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Tran Cam Tu on April 28 led a high-ranking delegation to offer incense at Temple of Dien Bien Phu Martyrs in Dien Bien province in tribute to fallen heroes, and those who bravely fought, sacrificed their lives at Dien Bien Phu battlefield.

The 2025 Combat First Aid Level 1 Training Course, supported by France, opened at the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations under the Ministry of National Defence in Hanoi on December 1.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception for the Liaison Committee of public security officers who were dispatched to support the southern battlefield during the war.

Nghiem Sy Thai, a former war reporter of the Liberation Press Agency, has unexpectedly being reunited with a diary he lost while reporting from the fierce Binh Tri Thien battlefield, which was recently handed over by the US Embassy in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - French Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastian Lecornu made a tour of major historical landmarks, including Hill A1 and general de Castries’s bunker system, in the former Dien Bien Phu battlefield in Dien Bien province on May 6.

VOV.VN - Crowds of people have been paying visits to several historical relic sites in Dien Bien Phu City in the northern province of Dien Bien to commemorate the Dien Bien Phu Victory on May 7, a prominent triumph during the country’s resistance war against French colonialists.

The panorama painting depicting the historical Dien Bien Phu battlefield at different times from late 1953 to May 7, 1954, is introduced to visitors at the Dien Bien Phu Victory Museum in the northern province of Dien Bien through QR scanning.

VOV.VN - Some 14 sets of remains believed to be wartime military soldiers have been discovered when construction workers refurbished a preschool in Tan Thoi commune, Phong Dien district of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

The Party Organisation and authorities in the central Lao province of Vientiane on December 28 hosted a ceremony in Thoulakhom district to commemorate heroes and martyrs of the Laos-Vietnam combat alliance who laid down their lives on the Keun battlefield in 1946.