PM vows zero tolerance of financial misconduct
Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith told the National Assembly this week that the ongoing violations of financial regulations by various state departments must be addressed and those found guilty punished. The premier was responding to questions raised by members of parliament concerning possible solutions to the ...
Australia approves AUD4.5 million for business, trade improvement in Laos
Laos is now actively working to improve the business environment and facilitate trade as part of supporting the government’s policy to improve the ease of doing business.To this end, the government of Australia last Friday approved AUD4.5 million (over US$3.1 million) to support ease of ...
Times Reporters
Laos to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property
Laos highly respects its obligations to protect cultural heritage, in particular its movable cultural heritage, after the country accepted the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the illicit trafficking of cultural property at the end of 2015. This message was stressed by Director General of the Heritage ...
Funding sourced for bus rapid transport project
Finance has been sourced for construction of the Vientiane Sustainable Urban Transport Project, also known as the Bus Rapid Transit, project to improve public transport and ease traffic congestion in central Vientiane, an official in charge of the project has said. The Asian Development Bank ...
Clean, organic agriculture production set to expand
Expanding clean agriculture production to supply market demands together with improved international market access can serve to catalyse growth in the Lao organic produce sector, an audience including the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry was told on April 20. Director General of Department of Agriculture, ...
Council gives green light to proposed Vientiane highway
The Vientiane People’s Council has approved a proposal for the construction of a 14-km highway submitted by city authorities in a bid to ease traffic congestion. The six-lane highway will be built parallel to Kaysone Phomvihane Road. The planned road will be 70 metres wide ...
KUST support RIEM on personnel training
Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST) of Yunnan province in China has inked a cooperation deal with Lao Research Institute for Energy and Mines (RIEM) under the Ministry of Energy and Mines for capacity building on personnel training.More ...
Vientiane Times
ChildFund extends support for scaling-up access to basic education in Laos
The Ministry of Education and Sports, ChildFund Korea and ChildFund Laos are extending their support to scale up access to basic education in 62 schools in Huameuang district, Huaphan province.The Scaling-up Access to Basic Education in Laos project Phase 2 is supported by ChildFund Korea ...
Times Reporters
Vientiane’s book festival seeks to turn a page in Lao reading culture
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Vientiane is marking another first in its development with the organising of a book festival, hoping to persuade the town’s citizens and students about the importance of reading.The festival, which opened at the World Trade Center on Thursday, is drawing a ...
Visith Teppalath
BOL warns non-bank microfinance bodies not to deal in foreign currencies
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL) has warned the public not to exchange, buy or sell foreign currencies through five categories of non-bank microfinance institutions.The five types of microfinance business are deposit-taking microfinance institutions, non-deposit taking microfinance institutions, savings and ...
News Desk
Nutrition, Water, Sanitation Efforts Scaled Up As EU - LAOS Project Reviews On SDGs
(KPL) Access to sufficient nutrition, clean water resources and adequate sanitation are keys to the health and livelihood of the populations around the world, particularly in developing nations such as South-East Asia’s Lao PDR.This is the overall goal of the Scaling Up Nutrition and WASH ...
KPL News Desk
Get everyone involved in fight against corruption, Lao anti-graft body says
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Government Inspection Authority (GIA) has told law enforcement agencies to create conditions that enable people from all walks of life to participate in the fight against corruption.GIA Chairman Dr Bounthong Chitmany recently issued an instruction in this regard to facilitate ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
Lao Chamber of Commerce and Industry lays out concrete steps towards economic development
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LNCCI) is developing a long-term business strategy based on green and sustainable development, to comply with the government’s policy on SME development.More ...
News Desk
Lao businesses strike at Asean Business Awards for second year in a row
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Lao companies impressed their peers with a strong outcome at the Asean Business Awards (ABA) Gala Night 2019 – an annual event initiated by the Asean Business Advisory Council in 2007 and held every year since to recognise outstanding enterprises across ...
News Desk
IUCN Officials Visit Laos To Update On Hin Nam No Transboundary UNESCO Nomination
(KPL) An IUCN team led by Mr. Peter Shadie, the new Director of the World Heritage Programme of the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN), is on a working visit to Laos to join a local technical taskforce to review recent progress made on ...
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Lao officials review forest, land use in Nam Poui National Biodiversity Conservation Area
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Officials from Xayaboury province and village leaders from Ban Navaen met with staff from World Wide Fund for Nature in Laos (WWF-Laos) in Phiang district earlier this month to review the outcome of the survey and mapping of household land use ...
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EU Provides EUR 5 Million For Export Competitiveness, Job Creation In Laos
(KPL) The European Union (EU) has supported EUR 5 million for export competitiveness and job creation in the Lao PDR by launching the ASEAN Regional Integration Support-Lao PDR Trade-Related Assistance(ARISE Plus-Lao PDR) in Vientiane on Sept 9.This four-year action will be implemented in partnership with the Ministry ...
KPL News Desk
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Vietnam chairs GMS-6, CLV-10 Summits from March 29-31
Vietnam will organize the sixth Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS-6) Summit and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV-10) Development Triangle Summit in Hanoi from March 29-31. The information was announced by the Foreign Ministry. The sixth Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS-6) Summit and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV-10) Development Triangle ...
VNA Reporter
Which Dams Are Releasing Water in Laos?
As monsoonal rains drench Laos and rivers continue to rise across the country, several hydropower projects have been forced to release water. Where are these dams, and when have they released water?The government received alerts from five hydroelectric plants in recent days regarding the release ...
Manyphone Vongphachanh
Laos Rethinks Savannakhet to Lao Bao Railway Project
The Lao government has consented to a feasibility study for the construction of a 220 km railway route from Savannakhet province to Lao Bao, which is situated in Quang Tri province, Vietnam, near the Lao border. Jiangsu Hengtong Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. has been asked to carry out a ...
Amrita Paul