VOV.VN - The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) will host an online consultation session on June 21 to help businesses increase exports to the Lao and Thai markets.

A ceremony was held in the northern Lao province of Oudomxay on June 16 to repatriate eight sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in the neighbouring country.

Cooperation and exchange activities across various fields between the central province of Thua Thien - Hue, and Sekong and Salavan provinces of Laos are gradually recovering after the COVID-19 pandemic.

A forum connecting Vietnamese entrepreneurs in Laos and Thailand was held in Vientiane on June 14, aiming to boost their cooperation for the three countries’ development.

Border guards in the northern border province of Dien Bien said they have broken two drug trafficking rings dealing from Laos to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The past decade has seen Vietnam move up more than 30 spots in terms of the corruption perception index, as ranked by Transparency International (TI).

VOV.VN - During the initial four months of the year the nation was the second largest rubber supplier to China with US$721.51 million, an annual rise of 2.2%, according to the General Administration of China Customs.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Laos are striving to increase this year’s total trade turnover by between 10% and 15%, thereby meeting the target set out by both sides’ leaders for the 2021 to 2025 period.

Trade revenue between Vietnam and Laos in the first five months of this year stood at US$690.6 million, up 21% year-on-year.

Vietnam has invested over US$815 million in hydropower and mining projects in Laos’s Attapeu province, the Vientiane Times reported on June 9.