National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân lauded efforts and achievements by the Sai Gon Newport Corporation (SNP) over the past three decades when attending its 30th traditional day yesterday.

A Vietnamese fugitive has been extradited from Cuba by officials from the Ministry of Defence and Interpol.

Minister of National Defence Ngô Xuân Lịch has urged agencies to seek local and foreign resources in capital and technologies to implement the first phase of a US-funded project to resolve dioxin contamination at Biên Hoà airbase in Đồng Nai Province, which is expected to begin in April.

On Thursday, Party General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng asked the army to make all-out efforts to complete its targets and tasks for 2019.

The Central Military Commission held a conference in Hà Nội yesterday to issue a resolution directing the fulfillment of national defence and military tasks, along with building the army’s Party committee.

40 years ago, on January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese People’s Army in co-ordination with the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, deposed Pol Pot, putting an end to the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, liberating Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh.

Vietnam News Agency speaks to General and former defence minister Phạm Văn Trà, who served in the battle at the time, on how it was a war where “justice triumphs over brutality”.

A new field hospital was established in Hà Nội on Thursday, aiming to train Vietnamese military medical officers to prepare for a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc stated that despite coping with difficulties, the Party and State have always paid heed to building the modern regular army at a working session with the Ministry of Defence in Hà Nội on Thursday.

Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyễn Chí Vịnh talks to the Vietnam News Agency about the success of the fifth Việt Nam-China border defence friendship exchange, which took place recently.

Researchers and agencies are planning to restore two bomb shelters in Hà Nội’s Thăng Long Imperial Complex. The sites, used during the American war, will then be open to the public.