Instead of performing solemn burial rites, a number of residents in Ho Chi Minh City choose to discreetly bury their deceased relatives around their homes in residential areas, which vexes their neighbors and poses worrying health hazards
Over the past ten years, a school guard in central Vietnam’s Quang Nam Province has written thousands of letters in search of relatives of war martyrs buried at a local cemetery, which he voluntarily tends.
A large number of visitors flocked to his house in Hanoi and resting place in central Vietnam to commemorate legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap’s first death anniversary on Saturday
Several veterans have devoted their entire lives to tending the final resting place of war martyrs in central Quang Tri province, and have been steadfast in the combat against tomb raiding.
The newly built mausoleum of King Hiep Hoa, the 6th king of Nguyen dynasty, has recently been handed over to Nguyen Phuoc lineage, his descendants, in Hue city.
The tomb and shrine of military commander Nguyen Van Can (1802-1902), whose contribution to the country is massive, has been neglected for years.