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The 29th annual Vietnam-Laos border meeting took place in Hanoi on December 26.

Officials of Quang Tri province and two Lao provinces of Savannakhet and Salavan have reached agreement on measures to curb spontaneous migration and undocumented marriages among residents living along the Vietnam-Laos border.

A Vietnam – Lao conference was held in the central province of Nghe An on December 7 to seeks ways to continue nurturing the bilateral relations and friendship and to share experiences in the ethnic work between the two countries.

Minister of Public Security General To Lam led the Vietnamese delegation to the 10th ASEAN Plus Three Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC+3) Consultation which took place in Bangkok, Thailand on November 28.

The potential of and ways to promote trade and tourism between Nghe An and Laos were discussed at a seminar in Vinh city of the Vietnamese central province on November 15.

The border guard force in the central province of Quang Binh has busted a trans-border drug trafficking ring, arresting two Lao suspects and seizing 100,000 meth tablets.

The Border Guard High Command in the central province of Quang Tri has been working with security forces from Laos’ Savannakhet province to arrest two Lao suspects for trafficking 215,000 pills.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has offered incense to commemorate fallen soldiers at Truong Son National Martyrs’ Cemetery and Road 9 National Martyrs’ Cemetery in the central province of Quang Tri.

Over the past 57 years, the Vietnam-Laos traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation have been consolidated and developed intensively and extensively.

Youth union delegations from Vietnam’s Quang Tri and Laos’s Savannakhet provinces held talks and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in Quang Tri on August 22.

The Vietnam-Laos friendship exchange programme 2019 took place in Lao Bao town, Huong Hoa district, the central province of Quang Tri on July 30.

The Vietnam – Laos border friendship exchange took place in the central province of Quang Tri on July 29.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung and his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone have agreed to continue giving top priority to promoting the sustainable development of bilateral cooperation, and promised to do their best for the effort.

The Ministry of Public Security is exerting efforts to stop drugs from entering Vietnam.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue welcomed 2.11 million visitors in the first five months of 2019, including more than 1 million foreigners, up 14.46 percent year-on-year.

The trading and transport of large amount of synthetic drugs in the form of pills and mathamphetamine together with heroin from the ‘Golden triangle’ from Laos to Vietnam tend to increase.

The culture, sports, and tourism festival for ethnic minority communities in the Vietnam-Laos border area, central region, and Central Highlands regions will be held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from May 17-19 under the theme “Solidarity, friendship, and development”.

A high-ranking military delegation of Vietnam led by Minister of National Defence Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich left Hanoi on January 19 for Vientiane to attend a ceremony marking the 70th founding anniversary of the Lao People’s Army (Jan. 20, 1949-2019).

The Hanoi People’s Court pronounced the death penalty for two defendants charged with the illegal transportation of drugs at the first instance trial on January 10.

Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith will attend and co-chair the 41st meeting of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-Governmental Committee on January 5-6 in Hanoi at the invitation of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc.