Vietnam to start work on monument to fallen Truong Sa combatants this year
Friday, March 13, 2015, 17:34 GMT+7
A foundation stone laying ceremony of a memorial park for 64 Vietnamese naval soldiers who were killed in a 1988 battle against Chinese invaders on Gac Ma (Johnson South Reef) of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago in the East Vietnam Sea will take place on Friday.
The ceremony will be organized in Cam Lam District in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, Dang Ngoc Tung, president of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL), who is also a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, said on Wednesday.
After the ceremony, the official construction of the park will kick off within this year and is expected to be completed in 2016, Tung said.
The construction will be funded by contributions from trade unions, workers, people and agencies nationwide, as well as from donations of Vietnamese communities in foreign countries, Tung said.
