Work started on the upgrade of Phat Tich Pagoda, a Vietnamese Buddhist pagoda in the Lao capital of Vientiane, on December 29.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Nguyen Huy Tang handed over office equipment worth US$100,000 – the gift from the National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam, to representatives of the Cambodian Senate at a ceremony in Phnom Penh on December 29.

The diplomatic sector will continue to focus on strongly developing the identity of the Vietnamese bamboo diplomacy in 2024 by concentrating on a number of focal points, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son told the media on the occasion of the coming New Year.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Laos has obtained significant achievements in all the fields within its remit this year, particularly in economic and cultural diplomacy, said Ambassador Nguyen Ba Hung.

The authorities of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang and China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region jointly organised a ceremony on December 28 to announce the upgrade of the pair of Tra Linh (Vietnam)-Longbang (China) border gates into international ones.

President Vo Van Thuong has hailed the Presidential Office in supporting the President and Vice President in performing both domestic and external affairs tasks assigned by the Party and the State this year.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is scheduled to hold a dialogue with farmers nationwide in Hanoi on December 30 to address their concerns.

Activities of the National Assembly Office are becoming increasingly professional and effective, said NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue during a conference in Hanoi to review its 2023 work and outline tasks for next year.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 28 asked the transport sector to pay more attention to infrastructure development, considering this as a key, priority task in 2024.

VOV.VN - Promoting the fundamental rights of ethnic minority people has been made the top priority in Vietnam’s development strategies and is clearly prescribed in the 2013 Constitution.