Every bone and tooth recovered at Le Thi Rieng Park undergoes a meticulous DNA sampling process, offering renewed hope of identifying Vietnamese soldiers who have remained unknown for nearly six decades.

A remarkable family story from Ha Tinh highlights love, sacrifice and an enduring search for a fallen soldier whose memory lives on through two Vietnamese Heroic Mothers.

Nearly 60 years after the war, former military medic Tran Van Ban still spends his days searching for fallen comrades. For him, every unidentified set of remains is a promise waiting to be fulfilled.

Modern genetic science is transforming Vietnam's efforts to identify fallen soldiers, bringing closure to families through advanced DNA analysis.

Vietnam is moving to accelerate the use of next-generation DNA technology to identify the remains of fallen soldiers, offering new hope to families who have waited decades for answers.

Half a century after the fierce battle at Hill 174, veteran Tran Van Phuc returned to the former battlefield with memories that had never faded.

For over 60 years, Ngo Thi Lang had no photograph of the son she lost in war. At 105, her greatest wish remains to bring him home.

Search teams have recovered 20 more sets of soldiers' remains at a park in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing the total found in just over a week to 95.

The Special Task Committees of An Giang and Takeo provinces on July 14 signed a handover record for the remains of 14 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who died during wartime and were recovered in Cambodia during the 2025–2026 dry season.

After three years of waiting for a single phone call, one Vietnamese family finally received confirmation that DNA testing had identified the remains of their fallen relative.

Search teams have uncovered additional remains of Vietnamese martyrs during an expanded excavation at Le Thi Rieng Park in Hoa Hung Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, including several sets of remains found stacked on top of one another.

A research team from Texas Tech University has handed over burial maps, wartime records and military files to Ho Chi Minh City to assist efforts to locate and identify missing war martyrs.

Nine years after an earlier search, Ho Chi Minh City has relaunched efforts to recover soldiers missing since the 1968 Tet Offensive, this time using advanced technology including ground-penetrating radar, resistivity surveys and DNA analysis.

The Steering Committee for the Search, Recovery and Identification of Martyrs’ Remains of HCM City on July 9 received war memorabilia and burial records of fallen soldiers from the research team for the Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative (VWAI).

After decades of unanswered questions, a sister hopes Vietnam's DNA program will finally reveal where her two fallen brothers rest.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung has called for stronger international cooperation, including the exchange of declassified wartime records and military memorabilia, to accelerate the search for and identification of Vietnam's fallen soldiers.

After more than five decades searching for his younger brother's grave, an 85-year-old man in Vietnam is hoping a nationwide DNA campaign will finally bring him home.

More than 50 years after losing his father in the war, one son is hoping modern DNA technology can finally answer a lifelong question.

Vietnam has begun recovering fallen soldiers' remains from a newly discovered wartime burial site beneath Le Thi Rieng Park (HCM City), where personal belongings have helped identify the first fallen serviceman.