VOV.VN - The legislative bodies of Vietnam and the United States should further increase cooperation to support the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership that is developing positively between the two countries.

VOV.VN - The Khanh Hoa provincial People’s Committee held a solemn ceremony at the Gac Ma Soldiers Memorial on March 14 morning to commemorate 64 naval men who sacrificed their lives in the Johnson Reef naval battle 36 years ago to protect the fatherland’s sovereignty over sea and islands.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on February 16 held a memorial service in Hanoi for US peace activist Merle Evelyn Ratner, a close friend of Vietnam, who passed away earlier this month.

The profound love that Merle Ratner, a left-wing and anti-war US activist who passed away on February 5, gave to Vietnam during her entire life will be always in the hearts of Vietnamese people.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had a meeting on the sidelines of the 17th ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting in Indonesia on November 15, discussing measures to promote defense cooperation between the two countries.

VOV.VN - United States President Joe Biden spoke highly of Vietnam – US relations in his keynote speech at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 19.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception for a delegation of politicians from cities in San Francisco Bay Area of California state, led by Sheng Thao, Mayor of Oakland city, on September 18 afternoon (local time) as part of his trip to the US to attend the high-level week of the 78th United Nations General Assembly, and bilateral activities.

The US Institute of Peace (USIP) has recently organised its annual dialogue on war legacies and peace in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Colonel Le Dinh Vu, Deputy Director of the Ministry of National Defence’s Department of Military Science and head of the office of the National Steering Committee on the Settlement of Post-war Unexploded Ordnance and Toxic Chemical Consequences, held a working session with a visiting delegation from the US Senate Committee on Appropriations in Hanoi on August 23.

The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin, the National Steering Committee on the Settlement of Post-War Unexploded Ordnance and Toxic Chemical Consequences (Steering Committee 701) and the radio and television centre under the Ministry of Defence on August 1 launched an action month for victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (AO).