Kỷ niệm ngày sinh Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh
    General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam speaks at the working session in Hanoi on May 13, 2026. (Photo: VNA)

    Consolidating the central steering committees for institutional and legal reform and for judicial reform is necessary in order to streamline organisational structures without reducing responsibilities, while ensuring clear accountability, measurable outputs and concrete results. Following the restructuring, the body will be renamed the central steering committee for institutional improvement and law enforcement, with the Party General Secretary and State President serving as its head.

    Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Lam Thi Phuong Thanh and Lao Minister of Culture and Tourism Suonsavan Vignaket exchange the signed culture and tourism cooperation scheme for 2026 2030. (Photo: VNA)

    Vietnam, Laos ink 2026 - 2030 culture-tourism cooperation plan

    Both sides pointed to substantive, positive outcomes in cultural and tourism cooperation from 2021-2025, citing successful cultural weeks in each country, cultural and art activities marking important occasions of the two Parties and countries, and the effective delivery of agreements reached by leaders that further fostered the special Vietnam Laos relationship.