At the meetings with the units’ leaders, General Nghia congratulated the units on their remarkable achievements last year and highly appreciated their efforts in carrying out combat readiness missions and taking care of material and spiritual life of troops, workers, policy beneficiaries and needy households. The units were ask to emplement effectively 2018 missions. He asked the units to grasp and implement effectively their 2018 missions with a focus on combat readiness posture. They were requested to exercise strictly the military discipline, ensure absolute safety, prevent fire and explosion, foster political education to raise troops’ political stance and ensure troops and locals to have a happy, safe and economical Lunar New Year Festival. Units in Gia Lai and Kon Tum should cooperate with localities to ensure political security and public order as well as take good care of national contributors and needy people in localities where they are stationed. The same day, the GDP’s mission, led by its Deputy-Director Lieutenant General Le Hien Van, paid a New Year visit to the An Giang provincial Military Command, Brigade 962 of Military Region 9, Thoi Port Border Gate Border Post of the An Giang provincial Border Command and military press agencies in Can Tho city. Praising the units’ recorded results in 2017 and preparations for Lunar New Year Festival, the GDP’s deputy director urged to keep in touch with local situation, give constructive advice to local leadership to deal with issues in a timely manner, pay attention to troops’ material and spiritual… [Read full story]
In his address, the Lao leader urged the two countries to foster bilateral ties and educate younger generations, military officials and soldiers on the special ties between Laos and Vietnam. Earlier, the Lao leader visited the President Ho Chi Minh Memorial Relic in Kim Lien commune, and visited the Relic House that the Lao government presented to the site.... [read more]
Le Thanh Hai, Political Bureau member cum City Party Secretary led a delegation to visit army units in Ho Chi Minh City on the 67th anniversary of Vietnam People's Army (Dec 22, 1944) and People's National Defense Day, on Dec 19. Every year, on the founding anniversary of Vietnam People's Army and People's Defence Festive Day (Dec 22), political leaders often visit army units, war veterans and various related organizations. The high-ranking delegation paid a visit and presented gifts to officers and soldiers of Military zone 7 headquarters and the Army number 47 headquarters. During the visit, the HCMC Party…... [read more]
PANO – A high-ranking military delegation, led by General Phung Quang Thanh, Defence Minister, paid working visits to some military units stationed in Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province. At the Naval Academy, General Thanh and the delegation visited the ship simulation commanding training centre 12418. After being briefed by Rear-Admiral Pham Hong Thuan, the Academy’s Director, the Defence Minister highly valued the unit’s achievements over the past years and asked the Academy to continue to focus on recruits’ quality and scientific research, promote political education and management skills for lecturers, officers and cadets as well as improve effectively education…... [read more]
PANO - The delegation of the 13th tenure National Assembly for Bac Giang Province led by Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy-Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan contacted voters in the Province on November 27th. The delegation, including Member of the 13th tenure National Assembly (NA), Commissar of the Air-Defence and Air Forces, Major-General Nguyen Van Thanh, had meetings with voters in Division 3 of Military Zone 1 and Division 365 of the Air-Defence and Air Forces. At the meetings, NA deputies briefed voters about the results of the second session of the 13th tenure NA and voters at the…... [read more]
North Korea's new leader has ordered "a powerful retaliatory strike" by the army unit that shelled a Southern island in 2010 if US-South Korean drills violate Pyongyang's territory, state media said Sunday. The comments came a day before the start of Key Resolve, a joint US-South Korean computerised command post exercise, which will continue until March 9. Kim Jong-Un, who took power in the North after his father died in December, met the 1st and 4th Battalions of the Korean People's Army 4th Corps at a base near the border with the South, Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency said. It…... [read more]
