The Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) will provide over 7.9 billion kip to strengthen biodiversity conservation and natural resource management activities in six target provinces.The 11 subprojects will take place in the provinces of Vientiane, Xayaboury, Huaphan, Luang Namtha and Attapeu, and in Vientiane, all of ...

Fears linger for livelihoods as new villages being built for Lao victims may not be suitable for agricultureTHE VICTIMS of the Xi Pian-Xe Namnoi Dam collapse may not be able to return to their normal lives any time soon because the locations of their new ...

THE THAI delegation at a meeting this week on a third dam planned for the Lower Mekong River at Pak Bang in Laos urged the Chinese project developer, Datang Corp, to conduct a transboundary study to resolve outstanding issues.More ...

Authorities in Phongsaly Province have approved a feasibility study for the development and construction of a new Special Economic Zone at the borders of Laos, China, and Vietnam. The Chinese firm will survey a total of 250 square kilometers of land, including 100 square kilometers of ...

Revenue earned from taxes increased by 20 percent in the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Finance.The increase followed the introduction of the new tax revenue management information system (TAXRIS) earlier this year. ...

(KPL) The number of dengue cases in Laos has surged to 28,371 with 60 deaths reported since the beginning of 2019, the Ministry of Health has reported.As for infection, the number is five times higher than that reported in the same period last year where ...

Floods in Xekong province caused by tropical storm Noru have left one person dead, while thousands of people in the south have been affected by widespread flooding after heavy rain lashed the area from September 27-30.Some 28 villages in Xekong province were inundated, while electricity ...

Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has urged Asean leaders to push for the translation of the Asean priorities into practice so regional community building can be realised.The Lao premier made the call to regional leaders while attending the 34th Asean Summit, which took place in Bangkok, ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Party and state leaders and members of the public planted thousands of saplings on National Arbour Day on Saturday, giving a huge boost to the government’s effort to increase forest cover to 70 per cent by 2020.Vice President Phankham Viphavanh, other ...

CHAMPASSAK, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has instructed Champassak and other southern provinces to overcome the hurdles and challenges in doing business in order to attract more investment.The meeting discussed the policy of creating an investor-friendly business environment in Laos. Doing business ...

(KPL) The government of Lao PDR is stepping up its fight against the emergence of so-called “super-bugs’’: infections that do not respond to commonly used antibiotics.Backed by international partners, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry launched on Nov 19 a ...

Xayaboury is once again hosting its annual Elephant Festival with 70 elephants and their mahouts taking part this year and entertaining the crowds with a wide range of activities.The festival, which has been gaining in popularity every year since it first took place in Hongsa ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – TOHLAO, in cooperation with Lao Telecommunication Public Company (Lao Telecom), has initiated an enterprise aimed at helping young, Lao startup entrepreneurs to utilise digital technologies to achieve their full business potential.The two companies expect to see an increase in the use ...

A grant of more than USD 73,000 was awarded to the Lao Cassava Association (LCA) on 10 December by the United States through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Creating Linkages for Expanded Agricultural Networks (CLEAN) Project.Keep reading  ...

(KPL) The malaria has claimed 19 lives with over 6,000 cases reported in 2018, according to the Department of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health.The annual meeting of the department was told on Jan 2 that 10,067 malaria cases were reported and about 14 lives ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – A Lao-Chinese joint venture company is planning to establish a pharmaceutical industrial park in Vientiane.Various kinds of medicinal products are expected to be manufactured to supply future demand and reduce imports.Chairman of the Golden Wisdom Hong Kong Company, Mr Zhang Chongdi, ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The central banks of Laos and Vietnam will enhance bilateral cooperation in information technology, technical matters and other important areas related to banking.Senior officials of the two banks met in Vientiane yesterday, led by Governor of the Bank of the Lao ...

VIENTIANE PROVINCE, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Dansavanh Nam Ngum Resort has earned the reputation as being a place that only the wealthy and most powerful people in Laos go to, an exclusive resort for the cashed up high rollers, beautiful people and their flashy cars. ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Humanitarian groups from the government, the United Nations and international civil society organisations met last week to discuss gaps in national crisis response and ways to overcome them.The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), as the Logistic Cluster lead organisation, works ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – More Lao businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), are set to benefit from attending trade fairs in foreign countries in the near future.A workshop on the topic was organised at Lao-ITECC in Vientiane last week on the sidelines of the ...