VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam has highlighted the historic lesson that building the nation must go hand in hand with defending it, calling for stronger combat readiness and modernization to respond to new security challenges.

VOV.VN - Sen. Lieut. Gen Phung Si Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) had a meeting in Hanoi on September 15 with Lieut. Gen. Ueda Kazumasa, Chief of Staff for Japanese Ground Component Command.

Defence cooperation between Vietnam and India has been actively promoted, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and Deputy Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong said while receiving Admiral R Hari Kumar, Chief of the Indian Naval Staff, in Hanoi on July 24.

Sen. Lt. Gen. Phung Si Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, received a delegation of the Engineering Department of the General Staff of the Lao People’s Army led by its Director Maj. Gen. Viengxay Xaysamone in Hanoi on May 19.

Vietnam always values the development of extensive strategic partnership with Japan, in which bilateral defence cooperation has made solid progress, said Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) and Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen Nguyen Tan Cuong on February 13.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen Nguyen Tan Cuong, chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), chaired rehearsals on October 31 for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 30th ASEAN Armies Rifle Meet (AARM-30) which will be hosted by Vietnam next week.

VOV.VN - State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on June 3 handed over a decision appointing Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong, Deputy Minister of National Defence, as Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese military General called for dialogues to be held in order to settle the ongoing dispute in the South China Sea, known locally as the East Sea, during the 17th ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces Meeting on September 24.

The General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) received the first-class Fatherland Defence Order and celebrated its 75th founding anniversary at a ceremony in Hanoi on September 5.