Ho Chi Minh City always considers international cooperation and the presence of the diplomatic missions in the country's biggest hub in the south as a great resource that needs to be respected and promoted, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Phan Van Mai has affirmed.

VOV.VN - Unlike many other Vietnamese people, soldiers on Coast Guard ship CSB 4031 celebrate the traditional lunar New Year holiday (Tet) early before taking on long routine patrol missions at sea.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of National Defense and the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations held a memorial service on January 19 for Lieutenant Colonel Do Anh, who passed away whilst undertaking a UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of National Defence on January 19 will hold a memorial service for a Vietnamese officer who died during his United Nations peacekeeping mission in Africa.

Vietnam needs to prepare personnel to meet the requirements of higher positions in United Nations peacekeeping missions, and continue to send candidates, especially female staff, to the UN headquarters, said Colonel Mac Duc Trong, deputy head of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

VOV.VN - Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Chargé d'Affaires of Vietnam to the UN, has called on concerned parties to fully implement South Sudan’s Revitalised Peace Agreement towards elections planned for 2023.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a talk on December 10 among various heads of Vietnamese representative missions abroad and businesses in a bid to help local firms seek better opportunities for development in the overseas market.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Defence presented the President’s decision on November 22 to assign 12 officers, including two females, to South Sudan and the Central African Republic in order to work for the ongoing UN peacekeeping missions there.

Vietnam’s sapper unit No. 1 and level-2 field hospital No. 4 joining UN peacekeeping operations made their debut at a ceremony held by the Ministry of National Defence in Hanoi on November 17.

An additional medical training course for the level-2 field hospital No.4 opened in Hanoi on November 10.