The inauguration and official handover ceremony of the Laos-Vietnam friendship hospital in Houaphanh province, northern Laos, took place on December 4.

Construction began on the Houaphanh provincial Radio and Television Station, a gift from the Vietnamese Government to the Lao Government and people of Houaphanh province, on October 27.

VOV.VN - The second Vietnam-Laos border defence friendship exchange held in Vietnam's northern mountainous province of Son La and Laos' Houaphanh province wrapped up on October 23 with remarkable success.

The northern province of Son La and Laos’ Houaphanh province jointly held a tourism and cultural festival in Houaphanh on March 21-23 to promote their popular destinations and the cultures of ethnic groups in the two provinces.

The Vietnam-Laos Friendship Park, a gift from the Vietnamese Government’s Special Working Committee, has recently been inaugurated and handed over to the Party Organisation and administration of Viengxay district, the northern Lao province of Houaphanh.

VOV.VN - The central province of Thanh Hoa and its neighbouring Lao province of Houaphanh held talks and signed co-operation documents on June 20 in the Vietnamese locality.

VOV.VN - The Laos-Vietnam Friendship Hospital, the largest health care infrastructure project ever presented to Laos by Vietnam, was inaugurated on May 17 in Laos’ northern province of Xiangkhouang.

A ceremony was held in Samneua District, Laos' Houaphanh Province on May 15 to hand over and put into operation Nong Khang Airport, which is expected to play a strategic role in the economic development of the northeast of Laos and Houaphanh Province in particular.

The Ministries of Public Security of Vietnam and Laos have paid tribute to their fallen soldiers and officers at a former revolutionary base of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party’s in Viengxay district of Houaphanh province.

VOV.VN - A further auxiliary border gate has been opened between Laos' Houaphanh province and Son La province in the northwest of the country from mid-December as a means of facilitating greater trade exchange between the two neighbours.