A theatrical arts event Saturday night in central Quang Binh Province marked the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Truong Son Road, also known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Former Ho Chi Minh Trail worker Nguyen Van Thang (L) meets with a resident in Quang Tri Province on April 30, 2009. … [Read more...] about Veterans, youth honor Ho Chi Minh Trail pioneers
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Ho Chi Minh Trail: Clear evidence of Vietnam-Laos relations (Part 2)
PANO - In a dark plot to take over three Indochinese nations, the US promoted to provide funds and weapons for its puppet governments of Saigon and Vientiane. The resistance war of Vietnamese and Lao people for national liberation remained difficult. Establishing a strategic area To achieve the goal of national reunification, Vietnamese Party and State attached much importance to extending and bettering the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In November 1973, the Vietnam Council of Ministers (now the Government), ratified a project to build the Ho Chi Minh road network on both the East and West of the Truong Son Range. On January 1st, 1974, the project officially started. It was a comprehensive strategic revolutionary base to link the rears of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia with battlefields, and an artery in the resistance war against the U.S imperialists. The Vietnamese Communist Party and Lao People's Revolutionary Party's leaders agreed to build a strategic supply route and a base for the South … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh Trail: Clear evidence of Vietnam-Laos relations (Part 2)
Ho Chi Minh Trail: Clear evidence of Vietnam-Laos relations
PANO – During the anti-American resistance war of Vietnam and Laos, the Truong Son Trail, also known as Ho Chi Minh Trail, becomes a live symbol of the revolutionary heroism, bravery and spirit “determination to fight and to win ” of the two peoples. It was also the life-line and pivotal logistics base and a bridge between front lines in the war to defend national independence of Vietnamese and Lao people. The legendary road named after the beloved President Ho Chi Minh The Truong Son Trail plays an important role not only in the Vietnam-Lao cause for national liberation but also in the two countries’ national reconstruction and protection at present and in the future. Immediately after the signing of the Geneva Agreement in 1954, with the scheme to replace the French to turn the South Vietnam into a new-type colony and to check the communist movement in Southeast Asia, the U.S imperialists had sent Ngo Dinh Diem back to Vietnam to set up a new puppet … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh Trail: Clear evidence of Vietnam-Laos relations
Ho Chi Minh Trail at sea – a symbol of international friendship
PANO – The Ho Chi Minh Transport Trail at sea could exemplify the proper and talented leadership of the Party, the heroism of the Army and the bravery and resourcefulness of Vietnamese soldiers and people during the past war. But it was also a symbol of international supports for Vietnam in the just war for its national independence, freedom and unity, according to delegates at a recent scientific conference on the Ho Chi Minh Transport Trail at sea. “During the past resistant war against invaders, we received great supports from the former Soviet Union, China and former socialist nations in eastern Europe,” said Director of the Vietnam Military History Institute, Associate Professor, Doctor, Major General Vu Quang Dao told People’s Army Newspaper reporters on the sidelines of the conference “Ho Chi Minh Trail at sea – road of will and creativity of Vietnam”. According to him, the Party and Army was right and wise when making the decision to … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh Trail at sea – a symbol of international friendship
Seven complexes of historical relics on Ho Chi Minh trail recognized as national relics
(Cinet)- The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued a decision to recognize 15 places at 7 complexes of historical relic sites on the Ho Chi Minh trail during the war against the US in the central province of Quang Binh as national relics. These seven historical relics are symbols and the images of people and soldiers nationwide who wholeheartedly assisted the southern battlefield in the struggle against the US. … [Read more...] about Seven complexes of historical relics on Ho Chi Minh trail recognized as national relics