Border guard forces of Lao Cai northern province of Vietnam joined talks on border issues in the first half of the year with the border control forces in Hekou district of China’s Yunnan province on June 25.

A delegation from the Vientiane capital of Laos on June 25 handed over US$30,000 to the Vietnamese Embassy to help Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City fight COVID-19.

The PathetLao newspaper of the Lao news agency KPL on June 24 frontpaged an article on the great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation between Laos and Vietnam.

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.