Party General Secretary and President To Lam on August 17 presented the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Public Security.
Ho Chi Minh City's authorities held a ceremony on August 2 to posthumously confer the State's noble title of “Heroic Vietnamese Mother” to five women whose husbands and children laid down their lives in the struggle for national liberation, construction and protection.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony in the central city of Da Nang on July 23 to award the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces during the anti-American resistance war to the Civil Medicine Division of Zone 5.
