VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a nationwide groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of construction for 121 inter-level boarding schools in land border communes.

Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang hosted a reception for Michael DeSombre, US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, in Hanoi on February 13.

VOV.VN - Foreign affairs, alongside national defence and security, has been identified as a core and regular task of strategic importance for Vietnam in the new development phase, reflecting both evolving global conditions and the country’s long-term national interests.

In the new era, the military’s logistics and technical sector must take the lead in sci-tech innovation, proactively absorbing the most advanced achievements of human knowledge, applying them to its development and the country’s industrialisation and modernisation, Party General Secretary To Lam said on January 14.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Veterans Association in Berlin-Brandenburg on the evening of December 21 marked the 81st anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam People’s Army (1944-2025) and the 36th anniversary of the All-People National Defence Day (1989-2025).

Party General Secretary To Lam on December 16 commended female military personnel for their important and meaningful contributions to building the army, strengthening national defence, and developing and firmly safeguarding the Fatherland.

VOV.VN - A working delegation from Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defence, led by Major General Phan Thi Hoai Van, deputy chairwoman of the General Department of Defence Industry, paid a courtesy call on Egyptian Minister of State for Military Production Mohamed Salah El-Din Mostafa during a working visit to Egypt and while attending the fourth Egypt Defence Expo (EDEX), held from December 1-4.

President Cuong stressed that these decisions reflect the Party and State’s recognition and appreciation of the three officers’ great efforts and contributions to the national construction and defence.

VOV.VN - Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam, and General Chay Saingyun, Permanent State Secretary of the Ministry of National Defence of Cambodia, co-chaired the 8th Vietnam-Cambodia Defence Policy Dialogue in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of October 29.

VOV.VN - A delegation of the National Assembly of Vietnam, led by Le Tan Toi, member of the Party Central Committee and chairman of the Committee for National Defence, Security and External Affairs, attended the 151st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-151) and related meetings held in Geneva, Switzerland, from October 19 to 23.