Vietnam's central Quang Tri province and its Lao neighbouring province of Savannakhet on September 18 agreed to maintain close coordination in combating all types of crime, ensuring security, social order, and safety, while firmly safeguarding each country’s territorial sovereignty.

The border guard command in the northwestern province of Lao Cai has coordinated with the Honghe border management unit, the Hekou entry-exit inspection station in China’s Yunnan province, to conduct joint law enforcement patrols along the shared border.

VOV.VN - Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Hien, Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam, paid a courtesy call on Lao Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Khamliang Outhakaysone on the morning of July 10 as part of a Vietnamese delegation accompanying Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung on his official visit

Vietnam is stepping up international collaboration to tackle human trafficking and illegal migration, as Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang engaged in high-level talks with UK and French officials on the sidelines of the Border Security Summit in London on March 31.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Laos will effectively implement a cooperation agreement between the Border Guard Command (Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam) and the Border Guard Department of the General Staff of the Lao People’s Army, as well as other signed agreements on border cooperation to ensure security along the two countries’ shared border.

Twenty-one prize-winning photos in a contest named “Tu Hao Mot Dai Bien Cuong” (Pride in the frontier strip) are on display at an exhibition launched in Ho Chi Minh City on April 26.

Minister of Public Security General To Lam suggested the Government apply measures to prevent people illegally returning to Vietnam given the complex development of the COVID-19 pandemic.