A large number of Vietnamese, Lao, and Thai enterprises and visitors joined a food festival, product exhibition, and distribution event in Laos’s Khammouane from November 13-17.

Representatives of the central province of Quang Binh and Khammouane province of Laos held talks in the Vietnamese locality on November 14, during which they signed a cooperation agreement on border protection.

A tourism promotion meeting between Vietnam’s Quang Binh province, Laos’ Khammouane province, and Thailand’s Nakhon Phanom province has been recently held in the central Lao locality.

Dan Hoa commune in Quang Binh province’s Minh Hoa district on November 22 was twinned with Langkhang hamlet cluster in Boualapha district of Laos’s Khammouane province.

The southernmost province of Ca Mau and the Lao province of Khammouane agreed to facilitate cooperation during a meeting between their leaders in the Vietnamese locality on January 5.

Construction started on the Laos-Vietnam Friendship Vocational School - a gift of the Vietnamese Party, State and people for the Lao side - in Khammouane province on January 5.

The Border Guard Command of the central province of Quang Binh on November 23 presented medical supplies and equipment worth 400 million VND (over 17,000 USD) to their counterparts in the Lao border province of Khammouane to support them in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The People's Committee of the central Quang Binh province on October 8 held a meeting with a local working delegation which will set off for Laos’ Khammouane province to aid its COVID-19 prevention and control on October 11.

Authorities in the central province of Quang Binh on July 20 presented medicines and medical supplies to help Laos’ Khammouane province, which is plagued by the lumpy skin disease (LSD).

The Border Guard Command of Vietnam's central Quang Binh province and the Military Command and police of the Lao province of Khammouane on January 13 looked into border defence, entry and exit management, and the COVID-19 fight.

Border guards in the central province of Quang Binh said they busted a Lao drug gang for attempting to smuggle 60,000 meth pills into Vietnam, in a joint operation with Lao authorities on January 7.

Lao Deputy Prime Minister Sonexay Siphadone continued his Mekong delta tour with a working visit to the province of Tien Giang on October 26.

A ceremony was held in the central province of Ha Tinh on August 30 to mark the 55th anniversary of the Vietnam-Laos diplomatic relations and the 40 years of the Vietnam-Laos Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

A conference calling for investment in the three central Lao provinces of Savannakhet, Bolykhamsay and Khammouane took place in Ho Chi Minh City on July 19.

The authorities of the central province of Quang Binh held a working session with the Laos Petro JSC on October 19 to discuss the outcomes of a site survey for a bonded warehouse and oil pipeline.

The Communist Youth Union of central Quang Binh province and Laos’ Khammouane youth union will foster collaboration as defined in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on September 17.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s working visit to Laos renewed the countries’ resolve to intensify their special solidarity, Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung told the press.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended a ceremony to kick off the construction of Dongkasen elementary school in the Lao province of Khammouane on September 13.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Lao counterpart Thoosing Thammavong launched the exploitation and processing of potash salt mines during a ground-breaking ceremony in Laos on September 13.