A grand requiem took place at Phat Tich Pagoda in the Lao capital of Vientiane on the evening of March 6 to honour the fallen soldiers and victims from both Vietnam and Laos, including the 64 Vietnamese soldiers who perished in the 1988 Gac Ma battle in Vietnam's Truong Sa (Spratly).

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh offered incense and laid a wreath in tribute to fallen soldiers at the Quang Nam Provincial Martyrs' Cemetery on February 8 during his working trip to the province in the early days of the Lunar New Year.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam visited the Vi Xuyen National Martyrs’ Cemetery in northern border Ha Giang province on February 5 to solemnly offer flowers and incense to the fallen heroes who bravely sacrificed their lives for national independence and freedom.

The southern province of Binh Phuoc held a solemn memorial and re-burial ceremony for 66 sets of remains of fallen soldiers at the provincial martyrs' cemetery on January 21.

Memorial and reburial services for the remains of some Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who laid down their lives in Laos during wartime were held at the Tong Khao martyrs’ cemetery in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on January 10.

VOV.VN - A total of 41 remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who sacrificed their lives during the wars in Cambodia arrived home on January 10, with the welcoming ceremony held at the Hoa Lu international border gate in Loc Ninh district, Binh Phuoc province.

A ceremony to hand over keepsakes of Vietnamese war veterans and fallen soldiers provided by the US was held in Hanoi on December 9.

The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai’s Steering Committee 515 on November 12 held a send-off for the provincial military command’s K52 search team to Cambodia to locate and repatriate remains of Vietnamese soldiers who fell down there during wartime.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Tri on August 11 organised an artistic programme at the Quang Tri Ancient Citadel Special Historical Site and the Thach Han River lantern wharf to honour fallen soldiers who sacrificed their lives for national liberation and freedom and deliver a message on the desire for peace.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia and the Cambodian Ministry of National Defence jointly organised a ceremony at the Vietnam-Cambodia friendship monument in Phnom Penh on July 26, observing a minute of silence and offering flowers and incense to commemorate fallen heroes.