VOV.VN - Approximately 4,000 of container trucks, the majority of which are carrying fruits, have been left stranded in the northern province of Lang Son after China recently introduced tougher COVID-19 safety measures, thereby causing fresh difficulties to the daily lives of thousands of drivers.

Vietnam and Laos held an online meeting to review the pilot implementation of the one-stop-shop inspection model at the Lao Bao (Quang Tri) – Densavan (Savannakhet) border gate pair on December 29.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu and Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith co-chaired the 31st annual Vietnam-Laos border meeting held in Hanoi on December 29.

Preliminary treatment centers and cold storage warehouses along the border and systematic logistics chains are both needed, experts said.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu has had a phone conversation with Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Wu Jianghao to examine measures to clear a huge backlog of truck drivers stranded at border gates of the two countries.

The US’s Warburg Pincus plans to implement a cross-border e-commerce project in Binh Duong province – a magnet for FDI in the south of Vietnam, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

VOV.VN - With thousands of container trucks left stranded at northern border gates due to China’s tightened COVID-19 prevention measures, experts have suggested that businesses diversify export markets instead of relying on a single market, among other solutions.

VOV.VN - Along with regulating backlogged goods at border gates, official exports by sea and rail freight should be encouraged, Nong Duc Lai, trade counselor of the Vietnamese Embassy in in China, said in a recent interview a granted to a VOV correspondent in Beijing.

A national conference was held in Hanoi on December 23 to review the external information service and communications about seas, islands, border demarcation, marker planting, and land border management in 2021.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Cambodia will maintain regular high-level exchanges, effectively promote bilateral cooperation mechanisms, and successfully organize activities within the framework of the Vietnam - Cambodia Friendship Year 2022.