VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, accompanied by his spouse and a high-level Vietnamese delegation, laid flowers at the monument to Philippine national hero Jose Rizal in Manila on June 1 as part of his state visit to the Philippines.

The Cuban Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City on January 27 solemnly held a ceremony to inaugurate a bust of Cuban national hero José Martí in its campus, marking the 173rd anniversary of his birth (January 28, 1853 – 2026).

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and the Cuban Workers' Centre (CTC) held a ceremony in Hanoi on March 8 to commemorate Cuban national hero José Martí Pérez.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and President To Lam stood alongside many Party and State leaders as they paid their respects to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi on the morning of August 30 ahead of the 79th National Day on September 2.

VOV.VN - State President Vo Van Thuong on February 18 offered incense and took part in a lunar New Year writing ritual at a memorial temple dedicated to National Hero and World Cultural Celebrity Nguyen Trai, in Nhi Khe commune of Hanoi’s Thuong Tin district.

It is very rare to find such special relations as the ties between the Parties, States, and people of Vietnam and Cuba, set up by Cuban national hero Jose Marti, President Ho Chi Minh, and President Fidel Castro and nurtured by generations of leaders of both countries.

VOV.VN - In 1987, UNESCO adopted a Resolution on the celebration of the 100th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birthday as a national hero and a great man of culture of Vietnam.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Le Thanh Tung paid a visit to a Havana school named after Nguyen Van Troi, a Vietnamese national hero in the American war, to join the celebration of his 82nd birth anniversary (February 1, 1940 – 2022).

The relationship between Vietnam and India has grown significantly over the past 50 years, with India becoming one of the leading partners of Vietnam, Ambassador to India Pham Sanh Chau told Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties.