The forum served as an important platform to enhance connectivity and promote investment, trade and tourism ties along the EWEC, while supporting businesses in market exploration, product promotion and export expansion to Laos and Northeast Thailand.
Party General Secretary To Lam highlighted that the visit by the Lao Party General Secretary and President, taking place shortly after the successful 14th National Congress of the CPV and the 12th National Congress of the LPRP, is a politically significant event of historical importance.
The Quang Nam Provincial Police Department (Vietnam) and Se Kong Provincial Public Security Department (Laos) jointly organized a conference to summarize and evaluate the results of cooperation in preventing and fighting drugs between the two provinces' police forces, on the morning of December 21, in Tam Ky City (Quang Nam).
Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue held talks with his Lao counterpart Saysomphone Phomvihane in Vientiane on December 4 as part of Hue’s trip to Laos for the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Parliamentary Summit.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has told Lao Minister of Planning and Investment Khamchen Vongphosy that Vietnam always attaches great importance to and give the highest priority to maintaining and developing its special relationship with Laos, considering it as a valuable asset with an important role in the revolutionary cause in each country.
Minister of Public Security General To Lam received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Lao People's Democratic Republic to Vietnam Sengphet Houngboungnuang, who paid a farewell visit to the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam as he ended his term of office in the country, on the afternoon of September 7, in Hanoi.
A delegation of the Sainyabuli Provincial Public Security Department, Lao PDR, led by Director of the Public Security Department of Sainyabuli Province Major General Kham Pheng Phet, visited with the Quang Ninh Provincial Police Department, from August 21 to 25.
Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court Nguyen Hoa Binh on August 22 held talks with his Lao counterpart, Viengthong Siphandone, who is on a working visit to Vietnam.
A Deputy Ministerial-level Meeting was held, on the afternoon of August 10, in Vientiane Capital, Laos between a high-ranking delegation of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam led by Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Nguyen Duy Ngoc and a high-ranking delegation of the Ministry of Public Security of Laos headed by Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Khamking Phuilamanyvong.
A delegation from the Xaisomboun Provincial Public Security Department (Laos), led by Deputy Director Colonel Inpan Nhattivong, officially visited Bac Giang province (Vietnam), on the morning of July 27.
A scientific cooperation agreement was signed among the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the Lao National Academy of Politics and Public Administration, and the Lao Academy of Social and Economic Sciences in Hanoi on June 30.
State president Vo Van Thuong on April 11 received former Lao leaders, including former General Secretary and President Choummaly Sayasone, former General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachith and former Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, during his visit to Laos.
During his visit to Laos, Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Nguyen Duy Ngoc, leading a high-ranking delegation of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, paid a courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Security of Laos General Vilay Lakhamphon, on the afternoon of April 5, 2023.
Deputy Minister of Public Security of Vietnam Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang and Lao Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Kongthong Phongvichit co-chaired the 13th Vietnam - Laos Security Cooperation Conference on the morning of March 15, 2023, in Da Nang, Vietnam.
The Nguyen Du Lao-Vietnamese bilingual school celebrated its 15th founding anniversary in Vientiane on March 11.
Visiting Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone co-chaired the two countries’ investment cooperation conference in Vientiane on January 12.
PSNews - Attending and cutting the ribbon to open the exhibition were leaders of the Thua Thien Hue authorities and representatives of Laos' two provinces of Salavan and Sekong.
PSNews - Recently, a special art performance highlighting the solidarity and friendship between Vietnam and Laos was held in Hanoi by the Party Central Committee's Commission for Communication and Education. Within the programme, the organisers also presented prizes to the winners of a contest on researching the history of special relations between Vietnam and Laos.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on November 30 received Baykham Khattiya, Minister of Labour and Social Welfare of Laos, who was in Vietnam for a special meeting on labour, social welfare and human resource development between the two countries.
The Thanh Hoa Provincial Police Department (Vietnam) held a meeting with the Houaphan Provincial Police Department (Laos) on November 11 and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation.