Multi-sectoral approach launches projects to reduce undernutrition
Two new projects, namely Reducing Rural Poverty and Malnutrition, and Scaling-Up Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, were launched in Vientiane on Wednesday to tackle the issue of childhood undernutrition.The projects are being supported by the World Bank at a cost of 460 billion kip (US$52 ...
Keoviengkhone Bounviseth
Lao, Thai businesses seek to bolster trade, investment
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao and Thai business communities are drawing up plans to increase bilateral trade and investment volumes in the coming years by overcoming several long-standing barriers.The two sides expect to set up a special working group that will team up with ...
Bounfaeng Phaymanivong
http://annx.asianews.network/content/lao-thai-businesses-seek-bolster-trade-investment-100827
Nine Border Checkpoints to Discontinue Visa On Arrival Services
According to a notice issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday, nine of Laos’s border checkpoints will discontinue providing visa on arrival services to tourists.The notice orders the closure of visa on arrival units at nine border checkpoints:Pang Hok (Phongsaly Province) bordering ChinaNam Soy ...
Francis Savankham
Thai food company eyes larger share of market in Laos
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Thailand’s Heritage Snack & Food Company Limited is eyeing a larger share of the market in Laos after having exported its products to this region for several years.“We started the import of healthy food products under the Heritage brand, such as ...
Souksamai Boulom
Laos: Govt partners in global war on drugs at airports
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government is working closely with international organisations to bolster the fight against illicit drugs at airports, through an interdiction task force.The issue is being discussed at the 9th Asean Airport Interdiction Task Force meeting taking place in Vientiane from November ...
Phomphong Laoin
Laos plans regulatory reforms to boost trade at border crossings
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Industry and Commerce will continue efforts to improve or remove unnecessary measures and regulations relating to exports and imports to bolster cross-border trade.Officials in charge of trade facilitation met in Vientiane last week for the 2nd Trade Facilitation ...
Bounfaeng Phaymanivong
http://annx.asianews.network/content/laos-plans-regulatory-reforms-boost-trade-border-crossings-102230
Laos Swine Flu Outbreak Sees Thailand, China Ban Pig Imports
China and Thailand have both ban pork and pig product imports from Laos following the country’s first outbreak of African swine fever.The first cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been reported in Laos, with seven outbreaks across villages in Salavanh Province, leading to the ...
The Laotian Times
https://laotiantimes.com/2019/06/24/laos-swine-flu-outbreak-sees-thailand-china-ban-pig-imports/
Railway tunnel engineers seek ways to prevent salt damage
LUANG NAMTHA, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Construction of a railway tunnel at the Laos-China border in Luang Namtha province will require the use of materials that are resistant to salt damage, so the track is not affected by the large salt deposits in the ground.Chinese ...
News Desk
Chinese language website aims to lure more visitors to Laos
Chinese nationals thinking of visiting Laos will soon have a new and up-to-date source of information about the country, with the addition of a section in Chinese to the website managed by the Department of Tourism Marketing.The department, part of the Ministry of Information, Culture ...
Visith Teppalath
Laos-Japan Friendship Park To Be Opened In Coming September
(KPL) The Laos-Japan Friendship Park has been expected to be opened for public use in coming September, one month before its handover.The park is located at Thana village, Sayaboury district, Sayaboury province. It is considered as a symbol of cooperation between Laos and Japan.The park ...
KPL News Desk
http://kpl.gov.la/En/Detail.aspx?id=47722
Exhibition marks conclusion of peach pit carving workshop in Laos
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The National Institute of Fine Arts (NIFA) exhibited carved peach pits on Thursday at the conclusion of a special workshop conducted by a Chinese trainer.The carved pits were very beautiful and in many forms and sizes, such as Buddha images, flowers ...
Visith Teppalath
Trade tensions create uncertainty, opportunity for Laos: ANZ expert
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The ongoing trade tensions are likely to create uncertainty globally but will also provide a golden opportunity for Laos as the country has potential in agricultural goods that are in high demand in foreign markets, according to a senior ANZ specialist.During ...
Bounfaeng Phaymanivong
http://annx.asianews.network/content/trade-tensions-create-uncertainty-opportunity-laos-anz-expert-102113
New Ridesharing Service DriveUp to Challenge LOCA
Cambodia’s Meal Temple Group has launched its new DriveUp ridesharing service in Laos, becoming the second player in the country after locally-grown LOCA.Meal Temple, which was established in 2013, made its first foray into Laos in July by purchasing an existing food delivery service mobile application, MyDelivery, ...
Taejun Kang
Development of hydropower ‘must be safe’, PM tells World Economic Forum
Hanoi, Vietnam: Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith told the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday that the development of hydroelectricity dams in Laos must be safe and environmentally friendly.More ...
Khamphanh & Souksakhone
Round Table retreat reviews implementation of 2018 recommendations in Laos
The government and development partners met in Vientiane on Friday to discuss translation of the key recommendations of the 2018 Round Table Meeting into concrete follow-up actions.The annual retreat on the 2019 Round Table process, which also discussed the roadmap towards the 2019 Round Table ...
Times Reporters
Chinese group inks feasibility study on purchase of Lao fruit
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Buyers from Sichuan province in China are expected to import up to 50 tonnes of fruit from Laos each year including bananas, pineapples and passion fruit.Lao and Chinese businesses have agreed to further cooperate in conducting a feasibility study on the ...
News Desk
Private education institutes in Laos to resume bachelor degree courses
Education authorities have given approval for some private colleges to raise their status to private education institutes so they can recommence bachelor and higher level courses.Two institutes, Rattana Business Administration College (RBAC) and Sengsavanh Administration College in Vientiane, have now been given the green light ...
Keoviengkhone Bounviseth
Laos makes contingency plans for control and prevention of Ebola
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times) – Laos will work with neighbouring countries to share information about Ebola, particularly with regard to people travelling internationally who may have been exposed to the deadly virus.Laos shares borders with five countries but none of these countries have reported cases of ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
http://annx.asianews.network/content/laos-makes-contingency-plans-control-and-prevention-ebola-101857
12 Lao women rescued from prostitution at Thai-Malaysia border
Officials raided a karaoke bar in Narathiwat’s Sungai Kolok district on Monday night and rescued 12 Lao women from prostitution.The raid against the Relax Pub in the border town was carried out at 8.30pm by officials from the Provincial Administration Department and Department of Special ...
The Nation
Chinese Railway Project in Laos Leaves Farmers in the Lurch
The railway project that would link landlocked Laos with China has been touted as a benefit to the Lao economy because it will lower the cost of exports and consumer goods while boosting socioeconomic development in the impoverished nation of nearly 7 million people.But the ...
RFA’s Lao Service