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Potential remains huge for economic cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai has affirmed.

Major newspapers of Cambodia, including the Phnom Penh Post, Khmer Times and Thmey Thmey have run a series of stories on the State visit to Cambodia of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong on February 25-26.

The Khmer-Vietnam Association, in collaboration with Metfone company – a subsidiary of military-run telecom group Viettel, presented 200 gifts to poor overseas Vietnamese and Cambodians in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on February 1, ahead of the lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Vietnam and Cambodia on July 19 held a ceremony to allow each other’s vehicles to go through the pair of international border gates at Le Thanh- Oyadav in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai and the neighbouring Cambodian province of Ratanakiri.

President Tran Dai Quang on June 17 met with Vietnamese former volunteer soldiers who helped Cambodia in the 1979-1989 period.

Thai army chief General Chalermchai Sitthisart met with Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen and Minister of National Defence, General Tea Banh on December 19.

President of the National Assembly of Cambodia Samdech Heng Samrin said he is pleased with the progress of bilateral friendship and cooperation as it has brought practical benefits to the two nations.

China’s President Xi Jinping met with Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni in Phnom Penh on October 13, vowing to carry forward the traditional friendship between the two countries.

President Tran Dai Quang and his entourage concluded their two-day State visit to Cambodia in the afternoon of June 16.