The A Pa Chai border guard station under the Border Guard Command of the northwestern province of Dien Bien, and the Qushui border police station under the Jiangcheng border management company of China, conducted a joint patrol on September 29.

The eighth border defence friendship exchange between Vietnam and China is scheduled to take place in Vietnam’s northern province of Lao Cai and its neighbouring Chinese province of Yunnan on September 7 - 8.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Vu Hai San and his Lao counterpart Lieutenant General Vongkham Phommakone have agreed on the need for the two Ministries of National Defence to continue their comprehensive cooperation in the time ahead.

VOV.VN - General Phan Van Giang, Minister of National Defence of Vietnam, and Senior Lieutenant General Wei Fenghe, Minister of National Defence of China, co-hosted the seventh border defence friendship exchange on April 23.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations and the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Association held a get-together on January 7 to mark 43 years since the victory in the Southwestern border defence war and the joint victory on January 7, 1979 of Vietnam and Cambodia over the genocidal regime.

VOV.VN - The first Vietnam-Laos border defence friendship exchange was held on December 12 in Huong Hoa district, Quang Tri province of Vietnam and Sepon district, Savannakhet province of Laos.

More than 100 Vietnamese and Lao military doctors provided health checkup for over 2,000 border residents of the two countries from December 5-8.

VOV.VN - The Ministries of National Defence of Vietnam and China on April 24 jointly conducted the sixth border defence friendship exchange in Dongxing city in the Chinese province of Guangxi province.

VOV.VN - The High Command of the Border Guard under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam, and the Army Command of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces on February 3 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on border defence co-operation.

The Border Guard Command of Vietnam's central Quang Binh province and the Military Command and police of the Lao province of Khammouane on January 13 looked into border defence, entry and exit management, and the COVID-19 fight.