In the face of the risk of supply losses and fire hazards stemming from the illegal collection and cross-border transportation of fuel, the Domestic Market Management and Development Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued a directive requiring localities to strengthen inspections and strictly handle violations in fuel trading and transportation in border areas.

Several polling stations located on frontline islands and at border guard stations across Vietnam organised early voting on March 14, enabling voters in remote and special areas to elect deputies to the 16th National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2026–2031 tenure.

For border and remote areas, education is not only about raising public awareness and training human resources, but also a fundamental, long-term solution to safeguarding national sovereignty at its root — the people, Party General Secretary To Lam affirmed on January 31.

The Thanh Border Guard Station and the authorities of Lia Commune in the central province of Quang Tri jointly held a spring celebration programme for local residents on January 23.

The ‘Accompanying Women in Border Areas’ programme, launched in 2018 by the Viet Nam Women’s Union in partnership with the Border Guard High Command, has delivered practical support to women and children in remote border regions. It has spread humanitarian and compassionate values across communities, consolidated the great national unity bloc, and reinforced a strong people-based border defence.

On December 13, the inauguration ceremony of the “Smart Library for Children” at Lam Thuy Kindergarten in Kim Ngan Commune, Quang Tri Province, was a practical and meaningful activity contributing to the care and support of education for children in border areas.

After many effective and comprehensive action programmes such as “March Border Month”, “Lighting up the Border”, etc., the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has continued to implement a long-term, synchronous solution with the participation of many forces towards the Fatherland’s border.

Investment in the border areas of the Southeast region has great significance in the socio-economic development strategy, associated with ensuring national defence and security of the region.

A ceremony was held in Laos’s Savannakhet province on September 29 to wrap up the fifth Vietnam-Laos People Friendship Festival and celebrate the Vietnam-Laos, Laos-Vietnam Friendship and Solidarity Year, the 60th founding anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 45th of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between the two countries.