SDG 18 Lives Safe from UXO
Sustainable Development Goal 18 (SDG 18) – ‘Lives safe from Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)’ aims to remove the UXO obstacle to human development in Lao PDR (Laos).1 SDG 18 was uniquely developed by Laos to address the more than 80 million cluster submunitions that remain unexploded ...
South-East Asia is sprouting Chinese enclaves
In a remote part of northern Laos, the bamboo forest gives way to cranes. A city is being carved out of jungle: tower blocks cloaked in scaffolding loom over restaurants, karaoke bars and massage parlours. The beating heart of Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (so ...
SUNWIP provides clean water supply for people in Xeno area, Savannakhet
Lao News Agency-KPL- The Lao government and the European Union (EU) jointly strive to improve access to clean water in Khammuan and Savannakhet provinces through the Scaling-Up Nutrition and WASH Infrastructure Project (SUNWIP) to contribute to achieving SDG 2 “End hunger, achieve food security and ...
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Save the Mekong Statement on the Collapse of the Xe Pian - Xe Nam Noy Hydropower Project
Save the Mekong, a coalition of non-government organizations, community-based groups and concerned citizens within the Mekong region, wish to express our shock and concern at the recent collapse of the Xe Pian – Xe Nam Noy hydropower project in Laos, and our deep condolences to ...
Dozens fail to declare acceptance of Vientiane expressway compensation
More than 100 people who will lose land and other property when the planned expressway is built through Vientiane did not declare their intention to accept the compensation offered by the deadline of January 30.The 15.2 km expressway will link the Lao International Trade Exhibition ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
Turn on to LAOSAT, TV broadcasters told
Lao state and private television broadcasters are being requested to utilise the country’s own Laos-Pacific Pacific Satellite Co., Ltd. (LAOSAT). Government policy requires that domestic agencies currently utilising equivalent satellite services from abroad make the switch to use Laos’ very own satellite, deputy manager of the ...
Vientiane Times
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Sustainable Development Goals 3 (SDG 3) – ‘Good Health and Well-being’ aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.67 SDG 3 includes 13 targets, with 26 measuring indicators. Targets 3.1, 3.5 & 3.7 are to reduce maternal mortality and improve ...
COVID-19 and gender equality
This page discusses the impact of COVID-19 on gender equality in Laos, including how it interacts with SDG 5.Read more ...
Lao Families Fear Getting Cheated by Developers of New SEZ in Champasak Province
Nearly 150 families in six villages in Khong district of southwestern Laos’ Champasak Province say they do not want to give up their homes and land to a special economic zone planned for their area and that they fear that project developers will not compensate ...
Roseanne Gerin
SDG 4 Quality Education
Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) – ‘Quality Education’ aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”.127 SDG 4 includes 10 targets, with 11 measuring indicators. Targets 4.1, 4.5, 4.7 and 4.A involve free, equitable and quality primary ...
Thailand pushes for Xayaboury dam power generation ahead of schedule
XAYABOURY, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Thailand is encouraging Laos to authorise operation of the under-construction Xayaboury hydropower plant ahead of schedule, to lower the overall power tariff, according to a Thai newspaper.Citing a reliable source, the Bangkok Post reported that Thailand’s Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) ...
Ekaphone Phouthonesy
Don Sahong dam ‘no problem’, says premier
Just weeks after Laos announced its plans to begin constructing a third mainstream dam in the Lower Mekong River region, Prime Minister Hun Sen used a bilateral meeting with his Laotian counterpart to signal that the controversial Don Sahong dam will no longer receive opposition ...
Govt awards friendship medal to departing WHO rep
The government has awarded a Friendship Medal to World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative to Laos, Dr Juliet Fleischl, in recognition of achievements during her mission in Laos.More ...
Times Reporters
Southeast Asia May Be Building Too Many Dams Too Fast
The disaster has brought into focus the ambitious agenda of Laos, one of the region’s poorest countries, to turn itself into “the battery of Southeast Asia” by building dozens of hydroelectric dams on the Mekong River and its tributaries and selling power to neighboring countries. ...
Borikhamxay route favoured for Vientiane-Hanoi highway
Laos and Vietnam have approved plans to build a Vientiane-Hanoi highway passing through Laos’ central province of Borikhamxay and Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An, over a distance of about 700 kilometres. An official from Borikhamxay province, who did not wish to be named, told Vientiane ...
Khonesavanh Latsaphao
PNPC Dam Collapse Survivors Reluctantly Accept Lowball Compensation Offers
Nearly one year after the collapse of a saddle dam that caused a disaster described as Laos’ worst flooding in decades, struggling survivors are reluctantly accepting compensation for about 50 percent of their total property losses.The disaster occurred on July 23, 2018, when a saddle ...
RFA’s Lao Service
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Rebuilt dam near site of devastating collapse releases water, scaring residents
The company responsible for Laos’ worst ever dam collapse more than three years ago announced last week that its rebuilt dam would begin releasing water, scaring downstream residents, including survivors of the disaster. Keep reading ...
Eugene Whong
Lao National Single Window to ease imports, exports at international borders
The Lao National Single Window (LNSW) – a unique computerised platform – is now fully in force to simplify and streamline the import, export, and transit of all goods and cargo at all international borders and airports in Laos.The Ministry of Finance recently issued a ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
Poverty reduction programme makes impressive progress
About 150 thousand people from four provinces have benefited from a Local Development Programme known as ‘LAO/030’ thanks to funding through the Luxembourg government’s poverty reduction initiatives in Laos.That was the message from the Programme Steering Committee Meeting of the ‘Local Development Programme for Bokeo, ...
Times Reporters
Public Welcomed To Join S2N Charity Run For Hospitals In Attapeu And Luang Prabang
(KPL) General public members are encouraged to join South to North (S2N) Laos Charity Run to raise funds for the Attapeu Provincial Hospital and the Lao Friend Hospital in Luang Prabang.More ...
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