Last updated: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
People serach for the remains of a war martyr in Nghe An Province
Authorities in the north-central province of Nghe An have decreed that all soldiers’ remains found by mediums must be confirmed by DNA tests in order to be made official.
Nghe An Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, provincial police and...
Last updated: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Military officers arrange the remains of 11 soldiers found in Quang Tri Province.
Military officers in the central province of Quang Tri on Thursday found a grave with the remains of 11 Vietnamese soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.
Following tip-offs from local residents, the officers unearthed seven sets of remains in a rural...
Last updated: Thursday, June 23, 2011
A ceremony held in Kongpong Chnang Province, Cambodia, to repatriate the remains of Vietnamese soldiers missing in action during the war against the Khmer Rouge regime.
Cambodia on Tuesday repatriated the remains of 11 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who died during the war against the Khmer Rouge regime.
It was the last...
Last updated: Monday, May 30, 2011
The remains of 21 soldiers are found after construction workers cleared site for a rural road project in Thua Thien-Hue Province.
Authorities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue announced Sunday that the remains of 21 Vietnamese soldiers killed in the VIetnam War have been unearthed in a rural village.
On May 13,...
Last updated: Monday, May 9, 2011
The minlitary command in central Vietnam on Saturday buried the remains of 141 Vietnamese soldiers who were killed in action when they were dispatched to Laos during the Vietnam War.
Fourteen of the 141 soldiers were identified, and DNA samples of the remaining 127 were collected...
Last updated: Thursday, May 13, 2010
MOU countries stress on drug control; HCM City takes measures to ease traffic congestion; Child respiratory diseases rise sharply in HCM City; Industrial parks urged to hire locals
MOU countries stress on drug control A meeting of the senior officials of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for drug control in the sub-Mekong...
Last updated: Sunday, April 11, 2010
PM Dung leaves for nuclear security summit in US; Remains of US personnel repatriated; President Triet’s Mid-east tour hits the headlines; Vietnam, Argentina boost energy cooperation
PM Dung leaves for nuclear security summit in US Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung left Hanoi on April 11 for the Nuclear Security Summit...
Last updated: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Sixty-eight years after the French colonial authorities executed Party General Secretary Ha Huy Tap in HCM City, his remains have been found by family members.
The excavation of Ha Huy Tap’s remains in late November. On December 1, a special Vietnam Air flight repatriated Tap’s remains from HCM City’s Hoc Mon district,...
Last updated: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Newspaper readers around the world have been amazed by the story of a 55 year-old farmer who has been sleeping with his wife’s remains for five years.
Le Van and the statue containing his wife’s bones. This man is Le Van. He lives in a small house with his three younger children and the remains of his wife in Thang Binh...
