VOV.VN - Vietnamese Minister of Public Security To Lam on November 16 held talks with Singapore’s Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean who is in Hanoi for a visit to Vietnam.

Politburo member and Minister of Public Security Gen. To Lam met with Chen Wenqing, Politburo member and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, in Beijing on September 14

Vietnamese Minister of Public Security Gen. To Lam hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 17 for Lao Deputy Minister of Public Security Sen. Lieut. Gen Kongthong Phongvichit.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Australia discussed a number of security cooperation related issues during their third dialogue held in Canberra on February 22.

Minister of Public Security General To Lam has called on the US-ASEAN Business Council and the US business community to continue to act as a bridge between the two governments, and between enterprises of the two countries, thus helping the two sides study each other's wishes and needs to boost economic-trade and defence-security cooperation.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense of Australia Richard Marles proposed increasing defense-security between Australia and Vietnam, while meeting with Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue in Canberra on November 30.

The 16th Vietnam-US labour dialogue took place in Hanoi on November 16, gathering representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), the US Department of Labour, and the US Embassy in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vice President of Vietnam Vo Thi Anh Xuan hosted a ceremony in Hanoi on April 26 to welcome Vice President of Laos Pany Yathotou who is in Hanoi for a three-day official visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN- The 12th security co-operation conference between Vietnam and Laos was held in Vientiane on March 3, under the co-chair of Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security Sen. Lieut. Gen. Luong Tam Quang and his Laotian counterpart Sen. Lieut. Gen. Kongthong Phongvichith.

Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos have committed to enhancing cooperation in fighting transnational crimes in all forms, especially drug crime, human trafficking, smuggling, terrorism and high-tech crime.