VOV.VN - General Luong Cuong, director of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army, hosted a welcoming ceremony in Hanoi on September 26 for Senior Lieutenant General Thongloi Silivong, Deputy Defense Minister and director of the General Political Department of the Laos People’s Army.

VOV.VN - Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, permanent representative of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and other international organisations in Geneva, attended a quarterly meeting of the ASEAN Committee in Geneva on September 23.

In every step of Vietnam's development, there has always been the support and assistance of the fraternal Lao Party, State and people, said President Vo Van Thuong at a September 21 reception for outgoing Lao Ambassador to Vietnam Sengphet Houngboungnuang.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Laos Saleumxay Kommasith, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of the Salomon Islands Jeremiah Manele, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Uganda Henry Oryem Okello.

More than 100 Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian experts, managers, and diplomats joined an international conference on the three countries’ trade and investment cooperation given the digital economy, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City on September 20.

VOV.VN - Vietnam attaches great importance to promoting the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong told outgoing Ambassador Sengphet Houngboungnuang at a reception in Hanoi on September 20.

The US Institute of Peace (USIP) has recently organised its annual dialogue on war legacies and peace in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Leaders of Laos, Venezuela, and Kazakhstan on September 15 sent condolences to Vietnamese leaders upon receiving news of a fire incident, which occurred in the late hours of September 12 night in Khuong Dinh ward, Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi, causing significant loss of life and property.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has told Lao Minister of Planning and Investment Khamchen Vongphosy that Vietnam always attaches great importance to and give the highest priority to maintaining and developing its special relationship with Laos, considering it as a valuable asset with an important role in the revolutionary cause in each country.

VOV.VN - Heavy rain which hit on the night of September 12 caused flash floods and landslides to hit several areas, resulting in the deaths of three people, leaving seven others missing in Sa Pa district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.