Liberation of the Spratly Islands: A strategic victory in the liberation of the South and national reunification
Saturday, April 19, 2025, 14:36 (GMT+7)
The victory of the liberation of the Spratly Islands in 1975 holds profound strategic significance. It not only contributed to the complete success of the Spring 1975 General Offensive and Uprising, which fully liberated the South and reunified the country, but also firmly affirmed Viet Nam’s sovereignty over the Spratly Islands.
BRICS expansion: opportunities and challenges for ASEAN
Monday, March 24, 2025, 13:05 (GMT+7)
Since being founded by Brazil, Russia, India, and China in the early 21st century, BRICS has increasingly strengthened its role as a key driver of global economic growth. The group has garnered attention and aroused desire for membership from the international community, including ASEAN countries
Beware of calls for political regime change in Vietnam
Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 15:25 (GMT+7)
Calls seek to incite demands for the establishment of political pluralism and opposition parties, steering the country towards a capitalist political system are extremely dangerous and warrant vigilance, resolute opposition, and outright rejection.
Several major guidelines for defence diplomacy in 2025
Sunday, March 09, 2025, 08:56 (GMT+7)
Vietnam’s defence cooperation, particularly with neighbours, major powers, strategic partners, comprehensive partners, ASEAN members, and traditional friends, continued to be enhanced. Multilateral defence diplomacy was carried out flexibly, closely, effectively, thereby contributing to cementing international solidarity, building strategic trust, taking advantage of major powers’ support for Vietnam to safeguard its national interests in international forums
The entire military strives to successfully accomplish the Resolution of the 11th Military Party Congress and military, defence tasks for 2025
Monday, February 10, 2025, 10:46 (GMT+7)
The world and domestic situations present a mix of favourable conditions, opportunities, difficulties, and challenges, posing new demands and heavier responsibilities for the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. To successfully fulfill the tasks of 2025 and the goals and missions set out by the 11th Military Party Congress requires the entire military to strengthen unity and consensus, overcome difficulties, and decisively implement solutions.
Promoting the heroic tradition and glorious career in building a strong Vietnam People's Army to firmly safeguard the socialist Vietnam’s Fatherland
Saturday, December 21, 2024, 18:53 (GMT+7)
It can be affirmed that throughout the 80-year journey of building, fighting, winning and growing up with lots of hardships and sacrifices, our Army has written a heroic tradition, brilliant feats, engraved in the history of the nation with significant milestones. The glorious victories that our Army has achieved are also the victories of our people, our nation, closely linked to the great achievements of the Vietnamese revolution in the Ho Chi Minh era.
Developing Cao Bang into a province strong in politics, prosperous in economy, and robust in defence and security, worthy of its revolutionary heritage
Monday, December 16, 2024, 15:04 (GMT+7)
Cao Bang holds significant historical value as a revolutionary base, the “cradle” of the revolution, and the birthplace of the Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army Team - the first standing military unit - the predecessor of the heroic Vietnam People’s Army. Upholding the revolutionary traditions, the Party Organisation, authorities, armed forces, and ethnic people of Cao Bang are determined to develop the province into a locality strong in politics, prosperous in economy, and robust in defence and security, befitting its historic significance
Enhancing international integration and defence diplomacy under the Party’s foreign lines
Friday, December 13, 2024, 15:41 (GMT+7)
The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence have carried out the work of international integration and defence diplomacy synchronously, comprehensively, effectively, achieving many significant results. The VPA has actively, proactively given advice to the Party and State on dealing with strategic issues relating to military - defence tasks, security, and border protection, well managing defence relations with other countries, particularly our neighbours, major powers, and strategic partners
Engineer Corps promotes the “Determined to Win" emulation movement according to Ho Chi Minh’s thought
Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 15:53 (GMT+7)
Deeply imbued with Ho Chi Minh’s thought: “emulation requires correct leadership, ideological unity, practical and well-defined plans, and constant support for improvement”, cadres and soldiers of the Engineer Corps have been steadfastly striving to implement these principles. This serves as a driving force in every individual and organisation’s effort to excel in their assigned tasks, contributing to building “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong units within the Corps
Vietnamese war veterans promote the virtues of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers”, actively taking part in Fatherland construction and protection
Sunday, December 08, 2024, 21:19 (GMT+7)
During the 80-year journey of history of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), generations of Vietnamese war veterans have directly devoted their efforts to building up the VPA’s heroic tradition and the noble title of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers” - our Military’s core value and shining symbol. That noble title continues to be an incentive for each war veteran to keep making contributions to constructing and protecting the Socialist Fatherland