VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government is planning to encourage farmers to produce at least 1 million tonnes of paddy rice for sale in the domestic market and export next year.To ensure the production of rice for export, the government, especially the Ministry of Agriculture ...

Government officials and development partners met in Vientiane on Tuesday to review the Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) project towards improving adaptation to climate change and food security in Laos.More ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) -The amount owed by the government to private enterprises has been put as high as 10.14 trillion kip, putting considerable pressure on the government to address this issue and sustain economic growth.Now the government has pledged to allocate more funds to repay ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao Chemical Import and Export Joint Venture Company plans to invest US$90 million within five years to supply chemical products to various sectors in Laos.The newly opened firm has divided its business operations into three phases and launched its action ...

Lao representatives attended a high-level meeting of the General Assembly in New York, USA, on World Children’s Day on November 20, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Minister of Justice Mr Bounsavath Boupha ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos has enough pigs to supply market demand despite an outbreak of African swine fever that is continuing to affect the country.The outbreak has affected 103 villages in 42 districts of 15 provinces, according to the Department of Livestock and Fisheries ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The National Assembly (NA) on Friday approved a new law relating to anti-dumping and countervailing duties in order to protect domestic products from unfair imports.As Laos integrates into the region, it needs to enact laws to protect it from unfair trade ...

Authorities in Laos have sentenced a woman to 15 years in prison for trafficking four Lao girls to China in 2018, RFA has learned.Identified as Mrs. Duangchanh, the woman met the girls in Luang Namtha city, Luang Namtha province in January 2018. She told them ...

The Japanese government is providing further grant aid to the Lao government for improvement of the Irrigation Agriculture Project at Tha Ngon farmland in Xaythany district, Vientiane, to ensure food security and commercial farm production.A ground breaking ceremony for the project was held last Thursday, ...

Laos and its partners will continue to cooperate in restoring and sustainably preserving many ruined structures at the World Heritage site of Vat Phou Champassak, which combines aspects of Khmer architecture and the Hindu religion.More ...

The number of tourists visiting Laos has increased 5 percent in the past six months thanks to a rise in the number of Chinese visitors.More than 2.2 million people visited Laos between January and June, according to Laos’s Tourism Development Department, Ministry of Information, Culture ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The unusually low level of the Nam Ngum river is creating uncertainty about adequate water supplies for agriculture this dry season and is already affecting electricity generation at the Nam Ngum 1 hydro plant.Referring to a recent interview with the Vice ...

The government of Laos has vowed to enforce a ban on the granting of land for new banana plantations and punish local officials who violate it, amid a controversy over the illegal overuse of pesticides that residents say are causing pollution and destroying their livelihoods.Concerns ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The first international aid from the Asean Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre) arrived at Wattay International Airport in Vientiane yesterday for distribution to six central and southern provinces devastated by floods.The shipment follows a request by ...

KUNMING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) — Chinese companies signed contracts worth 1.3 billion yuan (about 184 million U.S. dollars) to purchase goods, mainly agricultural products, from their Laos counterparts.The deals were signed as the 2019 Sino-Laos Investment Fair concluded Friday in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The development of Laos’ power transmission grid will receive a strong boost from private investment after the Ministry of Energy and Mines and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) signed a cooperation agreement.The agreement was signed yesterday by Deputy Minister of Energy ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The governments of Laos and South Korea are teaming up to build a modern hospital in Vientiane to provide advanced healthcare services and reduce the number of people seeking treatment in neighbouring countries.The hospital is to be built at a cost ...

WASHINGTON, December 2, 2019 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved $22.5 million in additional funding for the Poverty Reduction Fund, one of the Lao PDR Government’s main vehicles to address rural poverty.The additional funding will support agriculture-related activities under the government’s National ...

The University of the Ryukyus in Japan and the Okinawa-Laos Cleft Lip and Palate Centre in collaboration with Setthathirath Hospital in Vientiane on Thursday provided free cleft lip and palate surgery for disadvantaged Lao children.The surgery team consists of 15 doctors and nurses from Laos ...

Government officials joined National University of Laos (NUOL) and partner organisation representatives at a workshop recently to exchange ideas on the draft curriculum for the Master of Science Programme on Green Innovation for Environmental Management (GIEM).This master’s degree is different from other current postgraduate studies ...