The Lao Ministry of National Defence hosted a meeting to mark the 80th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and the 35th anniversary of the All People’s Defence Festival (December 22) in Vientiane on December 30 morning, bringing together senior officers of the Lao People's Army.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has showed his confidence that the Vietnam visit by Lao Deputy Prime Minister Saleumxay Kommasith will obtain positive results as a contribution to fostering the Vietnam-Laos great relationship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation.

Vietnamese company Viet Phuong Group has recently inaugurated and handed over the Dakcheung district Sports Complex as a gift to Laos’ Sekong province.

The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the Lao Consulate General in the city on December 27 oganised a Vietnam-Laos trade and investment promotion forum which aimed to boost connections between the two countries’ businesses and investors.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Laos held a ceremony on December 25 to confer orders and medals from the Vietnamese Party, State on one collective and several individuals of the Lao Presidential Office in recognition of their remarkable contributions to the great friendship between the two countries.

VOV.VN - The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and its Commission for Propaganda and Training and Commission for Foreign Affairs coordinated with the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) to organize a presentation on Vietnam's bamboo diplomacy policy on December 24 in Vientiane.

VOV.VN - A memorial and requiem ceremony for the heroic Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and Lao national heroes was held in Luang Prabang on December 22 to honour and remember those who sacrificed their lives for independence, freedom, and noble international missions.

VOV.VN - Frost appeared on the Fansipan mountain peak in Sa Pa town in the northern Lao Cai province on the early morning of December 23 as the temperature plunged to below one degree Celsius.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh inspected the construction site of the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway project and attended the groundbreaking ceremony of a social housing project in Lao Cai city in the northern mountainous province of the same name on December 22.

VOV.VN - Over the past few days, residents of flood and landslide-hit Nu Village in Bao Yen district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai have been busy stabilising their lives in a new resettlement area which is built about two km from the old village.