The delegation gathered more than 200 representatives from the banking sector, the Vietnam Academy of Dance, reporters, and naval officers and soldiers.

The High Command of Naval Region 4 hosted a ceremony at Cam Ranh military port in the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on December 26 to bid farewell to a working delegation and naval vessels who will visit Truong Sa (Spratly) island district.

Activities to celebrate the 2024 mid-Autumn festival, held annually on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, have been organised for children in Truong Sa town, Song Tu Tay and Sinh Ton communes, and on Da Tay island in Truong Sa island district, the central province of Khanh Hoa.

During the visit to Truong Sa island district, the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, by working group No. 21 in 2024, many gifts were brought for the children living on the remote islands.

After 49 years of post-liberation construction and development (1975 - 2024), the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago in Truong Sa island district, the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, has been undergoing continuous changes. Welfare facilities such as cultural houses, schools, hospitals, and berths are either being modernised or built.

Former Deputy Foreign Minister, Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Son, who is also former head of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs, has highlighted the significance of visits by overseas Vietnamese (OVs) to people and soldiers in Truong Sa island district and DK1 platform across the past 11 years.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City held a conference on April 17 to raise public awareness of seas and islands this year and launched a programme aimed to raise 76 billion VND (3.3 million USD) for a programme called "For Green Truong Sa" (Spratly).

Lunar New Year (Tet) wishes were extended to residents and soldiers in Truong Sa (Spratly) island district via a live television programme organised by authorities of the central province of Khanh Hoa on January 17.

The People’s Committee of Truong Sa island district in the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on December 9 hosted a ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of the district's establishment (December 9, 1982 - 2022).

The lives of soldiers and islanders in Truong Sa island district in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa have changed a lot thanks to solar panels and wind turbines.

An automatic rain gauge station (VRain) has been installed in Truong Sa island district.

A working delegation led by Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Bong, Political Commissar of the Vietnam People’s Navy, visited officials, soldiers and people living in Truong Sa island district offshore Khanh Hoa south-central province and on DK1 platform on April 19-27.

Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN), World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international organisations in Geneva on March 19 held a get-together for the Vietnamese community in Switzerland and raised funds for people in Truong Sa island district, Khanh Hoa province.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has underlined that Khanh Hoa should turn its Truong Sa island district into an economic, culture and social centre at sea, and a firm wall protecting the national sovereignty over seas and islands on the foundation of Vietnamese and international law, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982.

The Military Hospital 175 on February 24 brought a patient with respiratory failure from Truong Sa island district in the south central province of Khanh Hoa to the mainland for treatment, using a helicopter.

Students of Song Tu Tay and Sinh Ton elementary schools and another in Truong Sa township in Khanh Hoa province’s Truong Sa island district attended opening ceremonies for the 2021-22 academic year on September 1.

The National Election Council (NEC) has allowed the holding of early voting in 20 electoral units in the Truong Sa island district on May 16.

National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan visited the High Command of Military Region 3 and the Vietnam People’s Navy in the northern city of Hai Phong on December 20.

A fund will be raised for the construction of a great solidarity house of Vietnam’s ethnic groups in the Truong Sa island district, south central Khanh Hoa province, according to the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee.

The Hanoi Fatherland Front Committee honoured 20 organisations in recognition of their outstanding contributions in raising the “For beloved Truong Sa” fund at a conference in the city on June 7.