The Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association Central Committee has presented more than VND600 million (US$26,000) and 225,000 face masks to help Laos fight COVID-19.

Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) plans to mobilise 32 billion kWh of renewable energy, including 26.3 billion kWh of solar power, meaning the output of coal-fuelled and hydro-power plants will be reduced.

Special prayers were offered to India, which has experienced a great deal of loss from COVID-19, by Vietnamese monks and Buddhist followers in Ho Chi Minh City at a ceremony held on May 15.

The Vietnamese community is joining hands with the government as well as cities and provinces of Laos in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue hosted a reception in Hanoi on May 13 for Lao Ambassador to Vietnam Sengphet Houngboungnuang, who was the first foreign ambassador to pay a courtesy visit to Hue as the top leader of the NA.

The Border Guard High Command in the northern border province of Dien Bien on May 10 presented medical equipment and foodstuff worth over VND100 million (US$4,360) to the Military High Command and Police of Phongsaly and Luang Prabang provinces of Laos.

Authorities in the north-central province of Nghe An held a ceremony at the martyrs’ cemetery in Nghi Loc district on May 7 to rebury the remains of 95 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Laos.

VOV.VN - Local authorities and residents of Sa Pa town in Lao Cai province are doing their utmost to implement COVID-19 prevention and control measures, with the resort town facing a high risk of local transmission in the period following national public holiday.

The Consulate General of Vietnam in Luang Prabang on May 6 handed over 50 million LAK (US$5,300) and medical equipment worth 10 million LAK to the Lao province to help local authorities contain the spread of COVID-19.

The Vietnam-Laos and Vietnam-India Friendship Associations on May 6 sent dispatches to their chapters at the provincial and municipal level on raising money to support pandemic-affected people in the two countries.