VOV.VN - The Ministry of National Defence has decided to send 80 Vietnamese soldiers to Turkey to help the Middle Eastern country with ongoing search and rescue efforts following the recent earthquake which has so far killed 21,000.

A series of seven movies themed on Vietnamese soldiers will be screened during a film week that will take place from December 18-21.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Team K72, under the jurisdiction of the southern province of Binh Phuoc’s Military Command which is responsible for repatriating the remains of the Vietnamese soldiers who died in Cambodia, unearthed the remains of 39 martyrs after a one-month search.

VOV.VN - Hoa Lo Prison relic site in Hanoi welcomed the opening of an exhibition to the public titled “The silence” on December 9, with the event aiming to help guests gain a greater insight into the fierce 12-day-and-night struggle to defend the capital against United States’ airstrikes in late 1972.

Vietnamese veterans in Germany hosted a meeting to mark the 75th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27) in the city of Magdeburg, the state of Sachsen-Anhalt, on July 24.

A ceremony was held in the northern Lao province of Oudomxay on June 16 to repatriate eight sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in the neighbouring country.

VOV.VN - Thirteen sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who died during previous conflicts in Laos and Cambodia were re-interred at Ngoc Hoi Martyrs’ Cemetery in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum on June 10.

VOV.VN - A total of 32 Vietnamese soldiers of Level-2 Field Hospital No. 3 who had joined the UN peacekeeping mission in Bentiu, South Sudan, returned to Vietnam on May 27 morning.

VOV.VN - A deployment ceremony for the nation’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1 and Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 4 participating in UN missions was held on April 27 in Hanoi amid the presence of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

The France-Vietnam Friendship Association and the Association of Vietnamese in France has held a workshop on the occasion of the 80th death anniversary of 27 patriotic combatants who were executed by the Nazis in Châteaubriant during the anti-France war, including Vietnamese soldier Huynh Khuong An.