The ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, with the French Minister of Armed Forces in presence, has been widely covered in the French media as an action to recall the past but also look toward the future.

VOV.VN - Armed forces and militia members have impressed local residents and tourists with a grand military parade marking 70 years of the Dien Bien Phu victory over French colonialism, and both leavers and stayers now find it hard to say goodbye to each other on the parting day.

The first newspaper copies reporting the defeat of French colonialists in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign in the northwestern province of Dien Bien 70 years ago are now exhibited at the Vietnam Press Museum in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - A military parade and a procession of civil forces gathering over 12,000 people took place on the morning of May 7 in Dien Bien province to mark the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory over French colonialism.

VOV.VN - Throughout May historical sites in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, including the command tunnel of French general De Castries, have been crowded with people keen to learn about the historic Dien Bien Phu Victory on May 7, 1954.

VOV.VN - A grand military parade in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory over French colonialism (May 7, 1954 - 2024) was held at the stadium of the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien on May 7.

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.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954), reporters of the Vietnam News Agency in Paris have visited 99-year-old Geneviève de Galard, the only female flight nurse of the French force in the historic 56-day campaign.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Party and State leaders on May 6 laid wreaths, offered incense and paid tribute to heroic martyrs at the A1 National Martyrs Cemetery in Dien Bien province ahead of a grand ceremony marking 70 years of the Dien Bien Phu Victory over French colonialism.

VOV.VN - An exhibition kicked off at the National Library of Vietnam in Hanoi on May 6 as part of activities to mark the 70th anniversary of the country’s historical victory at Dien Bien Phu against colonial French forces.