Deputy PM Pham Thi Thanh Tra said the complexity of the work meant relevant agencies need to change their mindset and adopt new methods to achieve better results.

The Ministry of National Defence convened a conference in Ha Noi on April 24 to roll out the peak phase of the 500-day campaign to accelerate the search, recovery and identification of fallen soldiers’ remains.

On April 1, General Phan Van Giang, Politburo Member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, and Minister of National Defence, chaired a meeting with the General Department of Defence Industry to discuss the implementation of several key tasks in the coming period.

The Navy must stay well-informed of the situation to provide timely and accurate advice for the Party, State, Central Military Commission, and Ministry of National Defence to firmly safeguard national sovereignty over seas and islands while maintaining a peaceful and stable maritime environment for national development, said the Party leader.

A delegation from the Development Department under Cambodia’s Ministry of National Defence, led by its Director Lt. Gen. Ouk Hoeunpisey, paid a Lunar New Year visit to officers and soldiers of the armed forces under Viet Nam’s Military Region 9 on February 4.

In the new era, the military’s logistics and technical sector must take the lead in sci-tech innovation, proactively absorbing the most advanced achievements of human knowledge and applying them to its development as well as to the country’s industrialisation and modernisation, Party General Secretary To Lam said on January 14.

The officers, carefully vetted and fully meeting the UN’s stringent standards, are ready to replace personnel currently serving with the MINUSCA mission, and to take up new posts at the UN Liaison Office for Peace and Security in Brussels, Belgium.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 22 signed a decision on the establishment of the Central Steering Committee for People’s Air Defence (the Steering Committee).

Party General Secretary To Lam, State President Luong Cuong, and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 6 attended the signing ceremony for the new regulations on coordination between the Ministries of Public Security, National Defence, and Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry of National Defence held a conference in the northern port city of Hai Phong on November 26 to summarise the implementation of Decree No.76/2016/ND-CP dated July 1, 2016 of the Government regulating logistics material standards for active soldiers, workers and defense officials.

General Nguyen Trong Nghia, Politburo Member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Standing Board of the Central Military Commission, and Head of the General Department of Politics of the Viet Nam People's Army, together with a working delegation from the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence, paid a working visit to the Academy of Politics, on November 19.

The Ministry of National Defence has issued urgent Official Dispatch No. 6840/CD-BQP dated October 27, ordering all military units to take immediate response measures and recovery efforts following severe flooding in the central region.

The 12th Party Congress of the Viet Nam People’s Army, the 2025–2030 tenure, opened in Ha Noi on September 30 morning.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a working session on the defence industry with the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence on September 27.

Party General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, attended and delivered key guidance at the 11th Whole-military "Determined to win" Emulation Congress for the 2020–2025 period held by the commission and the Ministry of National Defence in Ha Noi on September 24.

The Ministry of National Defence held a departure ceremony at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on September 22 to send off Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 7 and Engineering Unit Rotation 4 to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).

The participation of foreign military personnel in the upcoming parade on September 2 is seen as a powerful symbol of national and international solidarity for peace, cooperation, friendship, and development, said Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien.

The Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence has invited its counterparts from Russia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan, to attend the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19, 1945) and National Day (September 2).

The Ministry of National Defence convened a conference on July 7 to review Viet Nam's international integration and defence diplomacy efforts during the first half, and set directions and tasks for the remainder of the year.

The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence held an art programme in Ha Noi on July 3 evening, marking the 10-year review of the army’s implementation of the 12th-tenure Politburo’s Directive No. 05 on promoting the study and following of President Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and lifestyle.