VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a nationwide groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of construction for 121 inter-level boarding schools in land border communes.

VOV.VN - The Luc Na communal house festival in Luc Hon commune, a mountainous area in Quang Ninh province near the China border, serves as a cultural gathering where Tay, Dao and San Chi ethnic communities worship their ancestors and celebrate their traditional values.

VOV.VN - Numerous endangered and rare animal species have been discovered in a primeval forest along the Vietnam - Laos border area in Tuong Duong district of the central province of Nghe An through the use of camera traps.

VOV.VN - Border guard units working in co-ordination with local authorities in the central province of Quang Nam conducted various meaningful activities as part of efforts to take care of local people in the Vietnam-Laos border areas ahead of the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet.

The Border Guard Command of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai and representatives from the three border protection forces of Cambodia's Ratanakiri province discussed measures to ensure security, protect and manage border areas and combat cross-border crimes during their talks on September 25.

The central province of Quang Nam and Laos' Sekong province will step up communications to help local people better their understanding of the Vietnam-Laos time-honoured friendship and solidarity while increasing exchanges and consolidating the grassroots political system in border areas.

Border guard units from the northern Vietnamese province of Dien Bien and the Chinese province of Yunnan carried out a joint patrol on July 7 to promote coordination in border management and protection, maintaining security and order in border areas.

A workshop to launch the “Training Curriculum on Counter-Trafficking and Victim Protection” and to wrap up the project “Frontline training for Border Guards in Border Areas of Vietnam”, funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) of the US Department of State was held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on May 30.

Chi Ma border gate's border guard station and Chi Lang border guard station in Loc Binh district in Vietnam's northern province of Lang Son and China’s Ningming border management unit held talks and raised awareness of laws for residents in border areas on April 11.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security and the Cambodian Ministry of Interior held a conference on border security reinforcement in Tay Ninh province on October 12, with both nations’ representatives gave assessments of bilateral coordination in information exchange and crime fighting in border areas.