PM Le Minh Hung has approved the membership of the National Steering Committee for Search, Collection and Identification of Martyrs' Remains under Decision No. 2047/QD-TTg, signed on October 26, 2026, replacing an earlier decision issued in June.

The Vietnamese Embassy in the US has stepped up cooperation with US partners in addressing post-war consequences, focusing on mobilising support and resources for Vietnam’s 500-day campaign.

Ho Chi Minh City has completed the exhumation of 9,842 graves of unidentified war martyrs, collecting 7,083 sets of remains samples for DNA testing, while 2,759 cases yielded no samples.

A military flight transported 8,453 biological samples from fallen soldiers’ remains from Can Tho to Hanoi for DNA testing on October 21, following a tribute ceremony at Can Tho International Airport.

PM Le Minh Hung attended a memorial and reburial ceremony in HCMC yesterday for the remains of 731 fallen soldiers recovered from Le Thi Rieng Park, paying tribute to those who sacrificed their lives for national peace, independence and freedom.

At just 19, Nguyen Nguyen Phong became one of the youngest lecturers at Hanoi Polytechnic University. Fifteen years later, he joined a secret research team racing to understand and neutralize US magnetic mines during the Vietnam War.

Efforts are being stepped up to expand DNA testing capacity and apply next-generation sequencing technology to improve the identification of more than 207,000 fallen soldiers' remains whose DNA samples have been collected.

More than 15,400 biological samples from unidentified fallen soldiers were flown from southern Vietnam to Hanoi on Oct. 5 for DNA analysis, in the largest such airlift to date.

A workshop on applying geographic information system (GIS) technology for priority setting and decision support in post-war mine action was held in Hanoi on September 30, aiming to share initial results of a pilot study in central Quang Ngai.

A Vietnamese military team has recovered the remains of a fallen soldier in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province, its first find 15 days into the 2026-2027 dry-season search mission.

Ho Chi Minh City will step up efforts to find and recover the remains of fallen soldiers, said Nguyen Manh Cuong, vice chairman of the municipal People’s Committee and head of the city’s steering committee for the work.

A total of 664 sets of war martyrs’ remains have been recovered at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City after three months of search and excavation, according to the municipal Military High Command.

Party General Secretary and President To Lam met US-ASEAN Business Council representatives and US businesses in New York on September 23, where he was briefed on the Vietnam War Accounting Initiative.

The HCMC Military Command is working with relevant agencies to verify information and search for the remains of soldiers killed during the 1968 Tet Offensive and reportedly buried near the former Go Vap district Martyrs’ Memorial.

Hoang Cam, who invented a field stove that dispersed cooking smoke to help Vietnamese soldiers avoid detection from the air during wartime, has been posthumously honored as a Hero of the People's Armed Forces.

Da Nang has completed DNA sampling from nearly 26,000 unidentified war graves across 144 cemeteries, the largest such undertaking by any locality in Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to hold a memorial and burial ceremony in early October for the remains of fallen soldiers recovered from Le Thi Rieng Park, where 632 sets of remains have been found.

Vietnam has handed the US a sign and guardhouse from a former Marine Corps camp in Da Nang, in a gesture highlighting reconciliation more than half a century after the war.

The Military Command of central Da Nang city on September 15 began excavating and recovering the remains from a mass grave in Go Cao hamlet, Thu Bon commune, where 17 war martyrs are believed to have been buried.