Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

State media say Vietnam has launched its first domestically made warship equipped with artillery and missile systems.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has categorically rejected the notion that Vietnam invaded the neighboring Southeast Asian kingdom in the 1970s, saying Vietnamese soldiers had sacrificed their lives for “the survival of the Cambodian people and the country.”

A lieutenant-general has become the first Vietnamese officer to deliver a speech on national defense in the US since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, VnExpress reported Friday.

DIEN BIEN PHU — Tanks, artillery pieces and other relics of war are still scattered around the valley where Vietnamese forces won a decisive victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu nearly 60 years ago.

Less than a week after China launched its first aircraft carrier, the US showed off its own big-boy supercarrier to former enemy Vietnam - one of several smaller Asian nations with jittery nerves amid Beijing's burgeoning maritime ambitions.

Vietnam has received the first of three new coastal patrol planes, according to the aircraft's manufacturer, as it further upgrades its maritime defences amid tensions in the South China Sea.

The family of U.S.-backed South Vietnamese ex-leader Nguyen Cao Ky paid tribute to him at a tearful funeral Friday, urging people to remember him as a man who profoundly loved his homeland.

KUALA LUMPUR — Nguyen Cao Ky, the former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years during the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 80.

The United States and Vietnam launched a series of joint naval exchanges on Friday in the latest sign of warming ties between the former foes, as both nations grapple with ways to contain a more-assertive China.

Vietnam's prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued a decree about a potential military call-up, amid rising tension with China.

Foreign navies are to be given access to Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay, a naval stronghold that was a key Cold War outpost that is now emerging as a vital base to counter Chinese dominance of the South China Sea.

NEW DELHI - As part of the overall strategy to build strong defence ties with Asean countries, India will conduct a joint combat exercise with Vietnam as well as help in training its military personnel in information technology and English language skills.

Concerns over China's maritime ambitions are likely to remain muted at an Asia-Pacific defence ministers' meeting in Hanoi next week as participants steer clear of friction to nurture a potentially useful new security forum.

HANOI — Draped in red Communist banners and propaganda slogans, Vietnam's capital turned 1,000 years old Sunday in an extravagant ceremony intended to stoke national pride and show the world that this once war-ravaged country has moved beyond its dark history.

HANO — The French defense minister has agreed to help Vietnam modernize its military on a historic visit to the former colony, state media reported Tuesday.