In 1462, Vietnamese emperor Lê Thánh Tông while camping in today Laotian-Burmese border, he sent a welcome letter to the king of Ava in Central Myanmar.

[1][2] The first Burmese embassy to Vietnam was 1822-1823 led by George Gibson, who was the son of an English mercenary, which arrived Saigon.

The Vietnamese emperor was Minh Mạng, who had just taken the throne after the death of his father, the founder of the Nguyen dynasty Gia Long.

A commercial delegation from Vietnam has recently been in Burma, eager to expand the trade in birds nests.

The Vietnamese Government, through the military-owned Viettel, has provided arms and equipments, as well as sending military officials to train Burmese soldiers of the Tatmadaw to engage against ethnic rebels amidst the Myanmar civil conflict.