Ceremonies to see young people off for military service were held in 30 townships, communes, districts in Hanoi on February 27.

On February 23, Hanoi began conducting Covid-19 testing for 4,500 young men before they join the army.

 Nepal's Home Ministry said that as many as 29 people were killed and 72 people were injured in two separate bus accidents that took place in Kavrepalanchowk district in central Nepal and Baitadi district in far-western Nepal on Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The military is investigating unidentified objects that fell from the sky in two northern provinces, Tuyen Quang and Yen Bai, said an army official on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is studying to be able to produce modern military weapons in order to reduce weapon imports, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan, said in an interview with VnEexpress.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the armed forces to intensify training so they'd be prepared to respond quickly to any threat and safeguard the country's political security.

Every military officer, Party member and soldier should fully and deeply understand that the Vietnamese Army is the "revolutionary force of the people, from the people and for the people under the close leadership of the Party".

 There cannot be and there has never been an apolitical military, affirmed Major General Nguyen Ba Duong from the Institute for Military Social Sciences and Humanities under the Ministry of National Defence.

 Senior Lieutenant General Ngo Xuan Lich, head of the General Department of Politics under the Vietnam People's Army, held talks with Acting Director of the Lao People's Army's General Department of Politics Major General Vilay Lakhamphong yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s armed forces paraded through the streets of Dien Bien Phu City Wednesday morning, kicking off the 60th anniversary celebration of the nation’s victory over French forces at Dien Bien Phu.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Russia has officially returned to Cam Ranh with the proposal of building a wholly Russian-invested five-star resort near the Cam Ranh Airport. The resort for soldiers will be managed by a Vietnam-Russia management board.

A high-ranking Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan began a three-day visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) on August 25 at the invitation of the RoK Government.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Huu Tien, who came first at the national entrance exams to the Hanoi Medical University, the most prestigious school in the training major, may go soldiering instead of going to school.

The Voice of Russia has quoted Russian military experts as saying that the first two Russian submarines that Nga builds for Vietnam, named "Hanoi" and "Ho Chi Minh City," would take a journey to Vietnam through Africa.

The newly-established 954 air force-naval brigade can perform the following tasks: military transport, reconnaissance, aerial, water-surface and on-the-ground observation, search and rescue at sea, on land and rescue and flood prevention.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a recent meeting with voters of Phu Cu district in Hung Yen province, Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh said that to modernize the army, Vietnam has ordered six submarines.

VietNamNet Bridge – The army is always associated with the regime, the regime is under the Communist Party’s leadership. If the army is not politicized, it will become the robot army.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of February 25, hundreds of young men in Hanoi said goodbye to their friends and relatives to join the army.