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.

VOV.VN - The annual Bac Ha White Plateau Festival 2022 is scheduled to get underway in Bac Ha district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai from June 4 to June 9 with a traditional horse race as the event’s main activity.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received visiting Lt. Gen. Khamliang Outhakaysone, Deputy Minister of National Defence and Chief of the General Staff of the Lao People’s Army, in Hanoi on June 2.

VOV.VN - Sen. Lieu. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Minister of Defense hosted a ceremony on June 2 to welcome his Lao counterpart Khamliang Outhakaysone, who is in Hanoi for an official visit to Vietnam.