Seventeen Vietnamese Companies Recognized for Advancing Gender Equality in Business

On the evening of April 25, at Thong Nhat Park (Hanoi), on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification, the special art program “Symphony of the Homeland” (Giao huong Non Song) took place, drawing a large audience. Within a musical space that blended symphonic and contemporary elements, history, love, and Vietnam’s aspirations were vividly recreated through emotionally rich sounds.

The Hai Phong Department of Foreign Affairs has recently issued Plan No. 50 on the city’s socio-economic development, national defense and security, and external relations for the 2026-2030 period. The plan identifies strengthening the mobilization of foreign non-governmental aid as one of the key tasks, aimed at supplementing resources for sustainable development.

In the border commune of Muong Nhe (Dien Bien), where many students first hold a book only upon entering Grade 1, Tran Van Tho Semi-Boarding Primary School for Ethnic Minority Students is quietly cultivating a reading culture, helping books become the shortest path for highland children to access knowledge.

On April 20, at the Embassy of Vietnam in Canberra, Glenn Mathews, an Australian citizen and the son of an Australian veteran who served in the war in Vietnam, handed over the diary of martyr Vo Van Cong. The diary had been found by Mathews’s father in 1968.