The Lao government has approved a feasibility study for an expressway running from the capital Vientiane through the provinces of Xaysomboun, Xiengkhouang, and Houaphanh, to the Namsoi border gate bordering Vietnam

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh led a high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese Party and Government to attend the memorial service for former President of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and former President of Laos Khamtay Siphandone in Vientiane on April 7.

Vietnam always values the invaluable contributions of former Lao leaders to the special Vietnam-Laos relationship, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said during his separate meetings with former Party General Secretary and former President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachit, and former Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong in Vientiane on January 10.

A search team from Nghe An has discovered the remains of nine Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts in the Lao provinces of Xiangkhouang and Xaysomboun over the past month, the Military Command of the Vietnamese central province said on November 12.

A delegation of Hanoi led by Tran Sy Thanh, member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee, has separate meetings with leaders of Vientiane capital, Laos.

A Mid-Autumn Festival celebration was held in Vientiane on September 17, gathering a large number of Vietnamese children in the neighbouring country.

Vice Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Phuoc Loc on June 11 held a reception for a visiting delegation from the war veterans association of Vientiane, headed by President Phalom Linthong.

A photo exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory opened at the Lao People's Army Museum in Vientiane on May 6.

A photo exhibition on Vietnam’s seas and islands themed “Fatherland by the waves” opened in the Lao capital city ofVientiane on April 18.

The Vietnam-Laos Cultural Festival took place at the Vietnam Cultural Centre in Laos’ capital city of Vientiane on April 17.

Hanoi and Vientiane have signed cooperation documents within the framework of the working trip by Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Committee and head of the National Assembly deputies' delegation of Hanoi Dinh Tien Dung to the capital of Laos in mid-March.

General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith received a delegation of Hanoi led by Dinh Tien Dung, Politburo member of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Secretary of the municipal Party Committee, in Vientiane on March 12.

Going to pagodas on the first lunar days remains a tradition of Vietnamese people both at home and abroad, including those in Laos.

Vietnam brought a kaleidoscope of tourism offerings to the Travel Exchange (TRAVEX) Trade Fair, part of the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) 2024 in Vientiane, Laos from January 22-27.

Leaders of Can Tho and the Lao capital Vientiane agreed to strengthen the localities’ agricultural cooperation at a meeting in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta city on December 14.

Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi People's Council Phung Thi Hong Ha held talks with Vice Chairwoman of Laos's Vientiane capital People's Council Lamphoy Siakkhachanh in Hanoi on December 12.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen and Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s Council of Lao capital of Vientiane Anouphap Tounalom discussed ways to promote all-round cooperation between the two localities during their talks in HCM City on December 11.

Vietnamese and Lao enterprises signed nine memoranda of understanding (MoUs) spanning a wide range of cooperation fields at a trade connection conference between Hanoi and Lao businesses held in Vientiane on November 24.

The foreign ministers of Laos and Thailand have begun talks on the construction of a railway bridge over the Mekong River to connect Laos’s Vientiane capital and Thailand's northeast province of Nong Khai.

A joint venture between Vietnamese infrastructure developer Deo Ca Group JSC and Petroleum Trading Lao Public Company (PetroTrade) has been allowed to develop a railway project linking the two countries.