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The Committees for Foreign Affairs of the National Assemblies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam convened their sixth meeting in Vientiane, on August 2.

A 49-year-old Lao national was arrested in Ngoc Hoi district, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on July 31 for allegedly attempting to smuggle over 10,000 drug pills into Vietnam.

A photo exhibition highlighting the fine relations between Vietnam and Laos and between Ho Chi Minh City and Xiang Khouang province opened on July 31 in the Lao province.

The Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association of Hanoi held its fourth congress in Hanoi on July 30 to discuss plans for 2017-2022.

A Vietnam-Laos friendship exchange was held in the UK on July 28 by the Embassies of Vietnam and Laos in the host country.

Vietnam’s northwestern province of Son La and northern provinces of Laos held a conference in Son La on July 30 to discuss measures to intensify their cooperation in personnel training.

“Ho Chi Minh City’s Days in Vientiane” kicked off in the capital city of Laos on July 29.

Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Tat Thanh Cang on July 25 met with Bounthong Divixay, Secretary of the Party Committee and Governor of Laos’ Champasak province, as part of his ongoing visit to Laos.

The National Assembly (NA) Offices of Vietnam and Laos are holding their ninth joint conference in the central city of Da Nang from July 24-28 to share experience in assisting the two legislatures.

The Lao Ministry of Education and Sports hosted a talk with students of its schools and the National University of Laos about the special ties between Laos and Vietnam on July 24.

Since Vietnam and Laos set up diplomatic relations in 1962, the relationship between the two countries has flourished thanks to efforts from both sides to make ties deeper and more effective, especially in economy, trade and investment.

The Vietnamese Embassy and Vietnamese people in Laos offered incense to heroic martyrs at the Laos-Vietnam Fighting Alliance monument in Keun village of Thoulakhom district, Laos’s Vientiane province, on July 23.

More than 100 youngsters from Ho Chi Minh City on July 23 went to Laos to take on voluntary activities till August 5.

A joint patrol between the border guard forces of Vietnam and Laos was held at Border Marker 255 on the shared border on July 23 as part of the first Vietnam-Laos border friendship exchange in Vietnam’s northern Son La province.