The remains were unearthed at the former base of Y4 front surgeon team in Binh My commune, Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City. A reburial ceremony for martyr remains in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: vov.vn The reburial service showed the municipal Party Organization, administration and people’s gratitude to and helped educate young generations about the sacrifice of the martyrs for national liberation. The general offensive and uprising began in the early morning of January 31 in 1968 when liberation forces simultaneously launched attacks on the enemy’s bases in cities such as Hue, Da Nang, Quy Nhon and Saigon, and hundreds of towns from Quang Tri to Ca Mau. The offensive helped the liberation forces destroy huge amounts of facilities and logistics used by the US and the Southern regime’s armies. People in rural areas also took this opportunity to rise up against the US-backed administration at commune and district levels. Saigon-Gia Dinh (now Ho Chi Minh City), the headquarters of the US-backed Southern regime, was a focus of the offensive. Binh My commune in Cu Chi district was the place where liberation forces stationed before launching attacks on important targets of the US forces and the US-backed Southern regime. Nearly 300 soldiers, wounded soldiers, doctors and nurses were killed when the US forces and the Southern government bombed the front medical station based in the commune. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 General Offensive and Uprising, a book exhibition and exchange event themed “Memory… [Read full story]
On May 14, the Kien Giang provincial Party Department of Propaganda and Training and the provincial Politics School held a seminar on a speech made by President Ho Chi Minh at a training course for new party members. Nine reports at the seminar defined the importance of political affairs and drew lessons on educating new party members. Participants also discussed their responsibilities for teaching, researching and making staff and party members understand clearly about Ho Chi Minh's ideology. * The Ho Chi Minh museum in the central province of Thua Thien - Hue is carrying out a project to restore…... [read more]
Ho Chi Minh city will organize a series of activities to mark the 71st anniversary of August Revolution (August 19th) and the National Day (September 2nd). On September 2nd, the Party Committee, the People’s Council and the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh city and the Vietnam Fatherland Frond in Ho Chi Minh city will offer flower and incense to President Ho Chi Minh and Ton Duc Thang at Ho Chi Minh museum, Ton Duc Thang museum and President Ho Chi Minh statue park. Firework display will take place in district 2 and district 7 in the evening of September…... [read more]
The Organization Board of the Coastal Central South- Phu Yen National Tourism year 2011 has recently held a press conference in Ho Chi Minh city. Mr. Le Kim Anh, Vice Chairman of Phu Yen provincial People's Committee and Mr. Nguyen Van Tan, director of the Representative agency of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in HCM city hosted the conference. The press conference attracted many journalists, travel agents The organizers announced the activities in 2011National Tourism Year to more than 50 journalists from different news agencies and newspapers in Ho Chi Minh City, provinces namely Ba Ria-Vung Tau,…... [read more]
Ho Chi Minh City decided to invest 50 billion VND from the state budget for the city Technology and Science Development Fund which is scheduled to be operated at the end of this month. According to Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, the fund will support the application of newly researched results in the country and promote the technological transference and renewal in the city. The fund will lend money and support projects creating new technology in fields and sectors that the city gives priority to; projects to commercialize scientific research; and projects to create breeding ground…... [read more]
The investment in a waste incinerator using artificial lightning energy to process 1,000 tons of solid waste and 2,000 tons of hazardous waste per day has recently been adopted in Ho Chi Minh city by People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong. Accordingly, the waste gasification plant using plasma technology will be built on an area of 13 hectares at the Phuoc Hiep waste treatment complex in Cu Chi district. Invested by Australia’s Trisun Green Energy Corporation, the plant will use a plasma light system to increase the temperature to 3,000-7,000 degrees Celsius in a non-oxygen environment, to create lightning energy…... [read more]
