{"id":71398,"date":"2025-04-30T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/vietnam-war-50-year-anniversary-ho-chi-minh-city"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:55:08","slug":"celebrations-in-ho-chi-minh-city-mark-50-years-since-end-of-vietnam-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71398","title":{"rendered":"Celebrations in Ho Chi Minh City mark 50 years since end of Vietnam war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands gather to see parade featuring marching troops and an air show of Russian-made fighter jets and helicopters<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Vietnamese people have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/29\/50-years-on-from-the-fall-of-saigon-and-the-end-of-the-vietnam-war\">end of the Vietnam war<\/a>, in what the country\u2019s communist leader said was a \u201cvictory of justice over tyranny\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrations culminated in a grand parade in Ho Chi Minh City with thousands of marching troops and an airshow featuring Russian-made fighter jets and helicopters, as Vietnamese waved red flags and sang patriotic songs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/vietnam-war-50-year-anniversary-ho-chi-minh-city\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands gather to see parade featuring marching troops and an air show of Russian-made fighter jets and helicoptersThousands of Vietnamese people have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war, in what the country\u2019s communist lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71399,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71398\/revisions\/71399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}