VOV.VN - Laos’ People daily (Pasaxon) on June 25 highlighted the special relationship between Vietnam on the occasion of the June 28-30 visit to Vietnam by Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and State President.

Competent forces in the northern border province of Dien Bien have arrested four people who crossed the border to enter Laos illegally.

VOV.VN - Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and State President, will pay an official visit to Vietnam next week.

VOV.VN - Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Chansamone Chanyalath on June 23 presented US$200,000 to Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Ba Hung in support of Vietnam’s ongoing COVID-19 fight.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese investors poured a total of US$21.81 billion into 1,420 valid projects abroad during the opening five months of the year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The Border Guard Command of central Quang Tri province said on June 21 that they have arrested a Lao man when he was en route to illegally transport 38,000 pills of synthetic drugs into Vietnam.

The Lao-Viet Joint Venture Bank has donated LAK50 million (US$5,200) to Vietnam's National COVID-19 Vaccine Fund.

Vietnam-Laos trade expanded in the first five months of 2021 after a decline triggered by COVID-19, according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Laos.

The Ministry of National Defence presented its medical equipment aid for the Lao Ministry of Defence at a symbolic handover ceremony in Hanoi on June 17, which was attended by Lao Ambassador to Vietnam Sengphet Houngboungnuang.

Star Telecom (Unitel), a joint venture between Vietnam’s Viettel Global JSC and Lao Asia Telecom, on June 15 presented 200 million LAK (US$21,160) to Vietnam’s national COVID-19 vaccine fund.