Cooperation momentum aids search for fallen

According to the Social Policy Department under the General Department of Politics of the Việt Nam People's Army, since 1993, foreign individuals and organisations have provided Việt Nam with around 800,000 pages of documents on the burial locations of Vietnamese soldiers, helping authorities locate and recover the remains of nearly 1,000 war martyrs.

National gene bank keeps hope alive

Unlike previous efforts, which depended largely on wartime documents, eyewitness accounts and personal belongings, the Gene Bank offers something those methods cannot: a permanent genetic reference that can be matched with unidentified remains of fallen soldiers whenever new evidence becomes available.

Five hundred days in search of the fallen

Four months into the 500-day campaign, teams have already recovered nearly 1,400 sets of remains, and new DNA science is bringing more soldiers' names back every week.

The journey to bring fallen soldiers home

Fifty-eight years after the 1968 Tết Offensive and General Uprising, the search for and recovery of the remains of liberation fighters reportedly missed in action on the northern outskirts of HCM City is renewing hope for families who have spent decades waiting for news of their loved ones.

Racing against time to name war martyrs

As a 500-day nationwide DNA identification campaign gathers pace, search teams are racing against time to recover the remains and return them to the families who have waited for them for generations.

Final victim found after flash flood in Mường Than

The People’s Committee of Mường Than Ward said that at around 1pm, the local police discovered the body of a woman floating on the surface of the Mường Mít hydropower reservoir in Mường Mít Village.

When digital platforms meet tradition

As digital technology becomes a bridge between heritage preservation and contemporary life, young Vietnamese are turning to visual storytelling and AI-powered effects to breathe new life into cultural values in the digital space.

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