A meeting between officials from Da Nang and Laos’ Sekong province was held in Sekong on May 6 to discuss traffic management and immigration procedures at the Nam Giang – Daktaok international border gates during the Vietnamese city's upgrade of National Highway 14D.

Construction of the Da Nang–Sekong Friendship Hospital was launched on April 1 in Sekong province, southern Laos, highlighting growing cooperation between localities of the two countries.

A ceremony was held on May 19 in the Lao southern province of Saravane to hand over and repatriate the remains of 12 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Saravane and Sekong provinces.

A conference to exchange experiences on front works and to review the implementation a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Kon Tum province and Laos’s Attapeu and Sekong provinces on cooperation opened in Kon Tum on August 23.

The central province of Quang Nam and Laos' Sekong province will step up communications to help local people better their understanding of the Vietnam-Laos time-honoured friendship and solidarity while increasing exchanges and consolidating the grassroots political system in border areas.

VOV.VN - Luong Nguyen Minh Triet, vice secretary of the Party Committee of the central city of Da Nang, hosted a reception on December 28 for Phoxay Xayasone, secretary of the Party Committee and Governor of the Laotian province of Salavan.

Work on construction of a bauxite-alumina mining industrial complex, one of Vietnam’s largest projects in Lao, began in Dakcheung district, the southern Lao province of Sekong, on December 19.

Officials from the People’s Council of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam and Sekong province of Laos met to exchange experience in Quang Nam’s Tam Ky city on October 18.

Cooperation and exchange activities across various fields between the central province of Thua Thien - Hue, and Sekong and Salavan provinces of Laos are gradually recovering after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Secretary of the Party Committee and Governor of Sekong province of Laos Leklay Sivilay has suggested enhancing cooperation with central Da Nang city of Vietnam, especially promoting the export of agricultural products between the two localities.