VOV.VN - Senior Vietnamese Party and State leaders on August 24 mourned and paid their tributes to Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh at his funeral held in the northern port city of Hai Phong, his hometown.

VOV.VN - State President Vo Van Thuong and other Vietnamese officials on August 19 paid their tribute to late President Ton Duc Thang at his memorial house in An Giang province to mark his 135th birth anniversary (August 20).

A memorial ceremony and a reburial service was held in the central province of Ha Tinh on May 23 to pay final respects and rebury the remains of 10 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Laos.

The Hongyan Revolutionary Memorial Hall in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing has become a popular destination for tourists seeking to learn about revolutionary activities of communist leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai of China, and especially President Ho Chi Minh, and holds a special significance for Vietnamese people residing in China.

VOV.VN - A commemorative site for President Ho Chi Minh in the Lao province of Khammuon not only shows joint solidarity between the two sides, but also helps to preserve the cultural identity of the Vietnamese community in the neighbouring country.

Thanh Phan, a Vietnamese expatriate living in the UK, has shared his memories of President Ho Chi Minh who dedicated his whole life to the fight for the Vietnamese nation and people, on the occasion of the late leader’s 133rd birth anniversary (May 19, 1890).

The Department of Culture and Sports and the Department of Construction of south-central Khanh Hoa province, and the provincial Association of Architects launched an architectural and landscape design competition for the Truong Sa Museum.

A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Algeria visited the memorial on the street named Journalistes du Vietnam 8/3/1974 in Algiers capital city on March 8 to commemorate the Algerian journalists who died in a plane crash on the outskirts of Hanoi in 1974.

The People’s Committee of central Da Nang city on March 1 received a certificate recognising 78 “ma nhai” steles on its Ngu Hanh Son Mountain as part of documentary heritage under the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP).

VOV.VN - A solemn memorial service and burial ceremony for 56 sets of remains of revolutionary Vietnamese martyrs repatriated from Cambodia was held on January 13 at Hill 82 Tan Bien Martyrs’ Cemetery in Tay Ninh province.