VOV.VN - Defence Minister Phan Van Giang welcomed Deputy Defence Minister of the Republic of Korea Park Jae-min in Hanoi on September 16 to exchange views on defence cooperation between Vietnam and the RoK.

A state-level funeral was held in Hanoi on September 15 for General Phung Quang Thanh, former Politburo member, former Vice Secretary of the Central Military Commission and former Minister of National Defence.

A state-level funeral will be held at the National Funeral Hall, No.5 Tran Thanh Tong street, Hanoi on September 15 for General Phung Quang Thanh, former Politburo member, former Vice Secretary of the Central Military Commission and former Minister of National Defence.

VOV.VN - State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc voiced his strong support for strengthening defence cooperation between Vietnam and Japan during his reception for visiting Japanese Defence Minister Kishi Nobuo in Hanoi on September 12.

VOV.VN - Defence Minister Phan Van Giang on September 11 welcomed and held talks with Japanese Defence Minister Kishi Nobuo who is in Hanoi for an official visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Russia’s Saint-Petersburg and the “Polisan” Science & Technology Company based in the city have presented a batch of Cytoflavin, an anti-viral drug against COVID-19, to the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence to help it combat the virus.

VOV.VN - General Phung Quang Thanh, former Minister of National Defence, passed away in Hanoi on September 11 morning due to illness at the age of 72.

Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence is ready to play an active role in promoting defence relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Republic of Korea (RoK) for a common interest, Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien said on September 8.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien hosted a reception for the new Defence Attaché of the Philippines, Col. Ulysses S. Mancao, on September 7.

For generations of Vietnamese, the country’s strength has been sourced from the people, with the ideology of “taking the people as the root” considered the lodestar for the nation throughout thousand-year history of national construction and defence.