Vientiane, Feb. 10 -- Over the past 80 years, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has affirmed its role as a key national press agency, providing news for domestic and international media while serving as a bridge to strengthen the great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation between the Parties, States, and peoples of Vietnam and Laos, a leader of Laos has said. In particular, the VNA bureau in Laos plays a crucial role in facilitating the exchange of information between the two countries, emphasised Bounthong Chitmany, Politburo member, Permanent Member of the Secretariat of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee, and Vice President of Laos, in an interview with a VNA correspondent in Vientiane. H...