Vietnam News Today (Dec. 23): More opportunities to increase Vietnam – Australia economic cooperation; Energy cooperation constitutes bright spot in Vietnam-Qatar relations; Vietnamese soldiers mark Army Day with a feast of traditional dishes in Africa; Tropical depression strengthens, moves towards South-central coast of Vietnam.

On June 12, the working group led by Lieutenant General Pham Truong Son (Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army) attended the inauguration ceremony and handed over two 30 sqm classrooms and a kitchen to the E.C.S.S Nyinkuac Primary School in Abyei (Africa).

The memorial and funeral ceremony of 13 cadres and soldiers who died while performing their duties of rescue missing people in Rao Trang 3 takes place on October 18 at Hospital 268 Funeral House, belonging to the Logistics Department of Military Region 4, Thua Thien-Hue province.

The Russian Ministry of Defence has honoured seven Vietnamese soldiers who joined the Red Army of the former Soviet Union against fascism, in celebration of the 75th victory of the Great Patriotic War. Those Vietnamese soldiers now have their profiles included in the database of the ‘memorial road’ museum complex soon to be inaugurated in the suburb of Moscow.