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The sixth court conference of Lao, Vietnamese, Cambodian border provinces opened in Vientiane on August 10.

Nine Vietnamese provinces and 10 Lao provinces along the shared borderline will participate in the third cultural, sports and tourism exchange festival, scheduled to be held in the northern province of Dien Bien in September.

A meeting between secretaries of the Party Committees of the Vietnamese northern border provinces of Lao Cai, Dien Bien, Ha Giang and Lai Chau, and China’s Yunnan province took place virtually on April 27.

Four northwestern border provinces of Vietnam, namely Lao Cai, Ha Giang, Lai Chau, and Dien Bien, have held the first conference on agricultural cooperation with China’s Yunnan province.

Amid fears of large-scale transmission of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron, Cambodian border province authorities are looking at the possibility of implementing strict measures for crossing migrant workers, including implementing mandatory quarantine and PCR testing.

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien on August 16 put forward several measures that need to be done in the coming times to boost the development of border trade.

Border trade infrastructure between Gia Lai province and Cambodia's localities sharing the same border line will be developed to promote goods trading and exchange activities under a programme to develop Vietnam's border trade infrastructure to 2025, with a vision to 2030.

Border provinces of Vietnam and China on August 5 agreed to further step up cooperation in verifying and returning illegal migrants during their talks held at Quang Ninh’s Mong Cai International Border Gate.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 9 held an urgent video conference with the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, relevant ministries and agencies, and six provinces along the southwestern border, focusing on how to respond to the latest COVID-19 resurgence in the country.

Provinces and cities across Vietnam, especially border areas, are stepping up their COVID-19 prevention and control efforts.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has asked Ho Chi Minh City to maintain a high level of vigilance against COVID-19, improve its quarantine capacity, and be ready to support other localities, including southwestern border provinces.

Police in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang have detected tens of Chinese citizens illegally entering Vietnam.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has allotted an additional 1.5 billion riel (368,000 USD) to four provinces bordering Thailand for support of returning migrants in quarantine.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided to allocate an additional 800 million riel (196,000 USD) and 200 million riel to Oddar Meanchey and Battambang provinces, respectively, to prepare, supply and maintain quarantine accommodations for Cambodian workers returning from Thailand.

Government policies and programmes on poverty reduction have changed the lives of ethnic minority people in the northern border provinces.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has ordered the two northern border provinces of Lang Son and Quang Ninh to re-open some auxiliary border gates and crossings, per guidance from the Prime Minister on border trade activities.

Two bombs exploded in front of a government office in Thailand's southern Yala province on March 17, leaving 18 people injured. ​

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.

Vietnamese and Cambodian border provinces convened the second judicial conference in Siem Reap city in Cambodia on December 4.

The second meeting of people’s procuracies of Vietnam-China border provinces took place in Quang Ninh.