Despite the three previous rejections by courts in the US, the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/ Dioxin (VAVA) is suing US chemical companies that supported the US military to spray AO/dioxin in Vietnam during wartime, VAVA Vice President Maj. Gen. Nguyen Hong Son said on July 30.

The Ministry of National Defence on July 26 handed over the State President’s decisions to two officers who will join the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).

VOV.VN - The 2024 UN Military Observer Training of Trainer Course is underway at the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (VDPO) in Hanoi from July 15 to August 2, drawing participants from the host country, as well as those from Indonesia, Mongolia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the national political-military conference on July 10 to review the leadership and direction over military and defence affairs in the first six months of 2024 and launch tasks for the rest of the year.

VOV.VN - Military music bands from ASEAN countries will gather together in Hanoi from December 13 to 22 to participate in the ASEAN military music exchange on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army this year.

VOV.VN - Trust is the most important and valuable thing in the relationship between Vietnam and Russia, according to former Deputy Minister of National Defence, Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Huy Hieu, an academician of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.

The martyrs’ remains search and repatriation team in Laos under Military Region 2 has searched and collected 1,835 remains of Vietnamese over the past three decades, heard a ceremony to mark 30th founding anniversary of the team held in Oudomxay province, Laos, on June 17.

VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant Colonel Truong Anh Tuan, deputy commander of the Training Centre under the Ministry of National Defence’s Vietnam Peacekeeping Department, has been recruited as a military affairs officer at the Office of Military Affairs, according to the UN’s Department of Peace Operations (DPO) in New York.

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.

VOV.VN - Crowds of residents rejoiced at watching armed forces and militia members parade along the main streets of Dien Bien Phu city on May 7 in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory.