VOV.VN - Renowned celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay of the UK has named Vietnam and Laos as the world's leading food destinations in a recent interview with Korean YouTuber Cho Seung-yeon.

Nguyen Trong Nghia, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, held talks in Hanoi on December 12 with Khamphanh Pheuyavong, head of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee’s Commission for Propaganda and Training.

VOV.VN - China’s Hekou city and Vietnam’s Lao Cai city will meet this month to discuss the full opening of border gates in Lao Cai, according to Hoang Dang Khoa, chairman of the Lao Cai municipal administration.

VOV.VN - A forum aimed at discussing ways to remove difficulties facing Vietnamese investors in Laos was jointly held on December 9 in Vientiane by the Laos Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoIT) and the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos.

Vietnam’s Quang Binh AMI Renewables Investment Joint Stocks Company and the Government of Laos on December 8 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a feasibility study on a wind farm development project in Laos’ Savannakhet province.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong highlighted the significance of Vietnam-Laos special relationship during a reception in Hanoi on December 7 for Politburo member, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Laos Chansamone Chanyalath.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh gave a reception to visiting Lao Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith in Hanoi on December 7.

The 28th ASEAN Postal Business Meeting kicked off on December 7 in Binh Dinh province, central Vietnam, drawing delegates from all ten ASEAN countries.

Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, head of the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), WTO and other international organisations in Geneva, visited the Lao mission there on December 5 to extend greetings on the occasion of the 47th National Day of Laos (December 2, 1975-2022).

A conference to raise knowledge about policies and laws related to the Vietnam-Laos border took place on December 6 in the central province of Nghe An, gathering nearly 200 village chiefs from 20 border provinces of the nations.