United States war veterans have provided Vietnam with information to help recover the remains of hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers killed and listed as missing in action during the Vietnam war.

A delegation from the Vietnam Veterans of America organisation gave the Vietnamese defense ministry dossiers on six-hundred missing troops.

Since the US veterans began handing over such information in 1994, the remains of hundreds of Vietnamese troops have been recovered.

While there are over one-thousand-five-hundred US soldiers still missing from the war, there are around three-hundred-thousand unaccounted for on the Vietnamese side.