The Oudomxay Department of Agriculture and Forestry has issued a notice stating that authorities have detected the H5N6 avian flu virus in ducks sold at a market in Xay District.On 8 October, a team from the Department of Livestock and Fisheries, together with officials from ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Lao food and beverage producers are seeking to forge deeper inroads into international markets in a bid to grow their business and sales volume.Ten Lao food and beverage firms ranging from coffee processors to ice-cream makers last week exhibited their products ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos is facing an outbreak of the most virulent form of the dengue virus this rainy season.The National Centre for Laboratory and Epidemiology has determined that dengue virus serotypes 2 and 4 have been the causative organisms of the more than 14,000 ...

​(KPL) Since 1966, over 70 percent of drought or flood disasters in Lao PDR have occurred during El Niño and La Niña years, with major impacts on the Lao agricultural sector and the overall economy, according to World Bank reported in Vientiane Capital on Oct ...

Ten undocumented Lao migrant workers were killed and three others were seriously injured in a head-on collision early Sunday in eastern Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province while traveling by van to Chanthaburi province on the border of Cambodia to renew their tourist visas, Thai police said.“There ...

Construction of the Laos-China railway is gathering steam with many tunnels being bored despite rainfall, officials said yesterday. All three tunnels in Luang Namtha province are being bored with the Boten Tunnel having progressed the furthest at more than 50 metres, project coordinator for Luang ...

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) Wednesday defended its decision to wait nearly seven weeks before officially notifying the public that Laos began a preliminary procedure for the construction of a large dam that would be its fifth on the Mekong river.The Lao government informed the ...

Fresh off his state visit to Cambodia, President Tony Tan Keng Yam arrived on January 11 in Vientiane, the capital city of neighbouring Laos. Dr Tan, in Laos for a state visit until Saturday, was received at the Wattay International Airport by Lao Health Minister ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family has been providing support to the Lao Women’s Training Centre, run by the Lao Women’s Union, for the provision of vocational courses for marginalised women.A consultative meeting on the three-year project (from 2016-2018) ...

The first official visit to Laos by Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has proved fruitful as the two governments have inked deals worth millions of dollars. The two-day official visit from April 26-27 was Mr Phuc’s first as Vietnam’s Prime Minister and coincided with ...

Senior officials from ASEAN aviation are willing to work towards realising their aspiration to build a comprehensive partnership on the ASEAN Single Aviation Market, which would be a milestone for the ASEAN Economic Community. The officials also reaffirmed their commitment to driving their vision and dreams ...

Some 1,285 people have been found to be involved in corrupt practices, defrauding the government of 999 billion kip, a government inspection carried out in 2018 revealed.Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith delivered the news to the National Assembly (NA) on Friday after the Government Inspection Authority ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has outlined plans to ensure it is on track to meet the goals of its agriculture development strategy for 2025.The report, a five year development plan until 2025, states that the ministry’s expectation is for ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos will continue to work towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in all sectors as well as intensify capacity building and awareness-raising in the area of climate change.Speaking on Tuesday at the closing ceremony of the Round Table Implementation Meeting 2019, ...

SUMERNET is inviting research organizations and other relevant institutions to submit expressions of interest (EOIs) on works that help to understand how can we sustainably use and manage groundwater resources while reducing water insecurity for all in the Mekong Region. These works will granted under ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – People around the country are excitedly preparing to celebrate the Lao New Year (Pi Mai Lao) over four days of rituals and revelry next week.Meanwhile, in anticipation of the usual road carnage, state and private organisations are working together to try ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Members of the Young Entrepreneurs Association of Laos (YEAL) have called on the Lao Front for National Development to urge the government to remove barriers to doing business and address long-standing issues.Several difficulties routinely encountered by association members include access to ...

VIENTIANE, March 10 (Xinhua) — Bounnhang Vorachith, general secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee and president of Laos, inspected the Sun Paper Holdings Laos Co., Ltd. (Sun Paper Laos) on Sunday, hoping that the Chinese company will further help promote local economic ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Planning and Investment and the State Inspection Authority are continuing to push for better cooperation in response to the challenges of implementing the government’s socio-economic development plans.Representatives of the ministry and authority on Friday discussed coordination plans moving ...

(KPL) Enterprises in ASEAN will soon benefit from a new intellectual property (IP) cooperation signed between Singapore and the Lao PDR. This will allow innovative enterprises swifter access to a combined market of some 12.5 million people across both countries.A Memorandum of Cooperation was signed on ...