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.

A visiting delegation of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs, headed by its Chairman Vu Hoai Bac, held talks to those from the Lao Front for National Development (LFND) Central Committee in the Lao capital of Vientiane on June 7.

A delegation of Ho Chi Minh City's Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs on June 4 provided free health check-ups and medicines for impoverished overseas Vietnamese and Lao people in Vientiane.

The Vietnamese and Lao ministries of public security will work harder to raise the efficiency of cooperation in drug combat, heard a meeting in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue on June 3.

VOV.VN - Local workers have spent several days working hard risking their safety to harvest salanganes' nests on Cu Lao Cham Islands in Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam.