The Vietnam Business Association in Vientiane, Laos, on July 1 held its first congress for the 2022-2027 term.

A forum connecting Vietnamese entrepreneurs in Laos and Thailand was held in Vientiane on June 14, aiming to boost their cooperation for the three countries’ development.

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 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.

A visiting high-level delegation from Ho Chi Minh City on May 26 held talks with a delegation of the Lao capital Vientiane, headed by Chairman of the municipal People’s Council Anouphap Tounalom.

VOV.VN - Major newspapers from Laos, including Pasaxon,PathetLao Daily, Vientiane May, and Vientiane Times published news and photos of Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue’s trip to Laos on their frontpages, as well as running articles of the visit’s significance to bilateral ties.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and his Lao counterpart Saysomphone Phomvihane co-chaired a conference to share experience in designing mechanisms and policies supporting post-pandemic socio-economic recovery and development in Vientiane on May 16.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and his Lao counterpart Saysomphone Phomvihane have attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the Laos-Vietnam friendship park in Vientiane, as part of the former's official visit to the neighbouring country.

VOV.VN - Both Vietnam and Laos are fully aware of the value of maintaining and cultivating a "unique" close-knit and loyal neighbourliness for security and development, viewing it as a cause which is of vital importance.

Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and head of its Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia on April 27 visited Paxason newspaper, the Vietnamese Embassy in Vientiane and Vietnamese community in Laos.