The Boten Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Luang Namtha province hopes to attract more investors, especially in the fields of education and medicine. The education and medical industry zone opening ceremony was held on Friday. It was attended by representatives of the government, foreign investors and ...

According to the report issued on the website of the Office of the Supreme People’s Prosecutor of Laos, the second meeting of the Golden Triangle Prosecutors Network on “Cooperation to Counter Narcotics Trafficking in the Region” was held in northern Laos’ Luang Prabang province. The meeting ...

More than 4,400 Lao families are being forced to relocate to make way for the U.S. $6 billion Lao-Chinese high-speed railway whose construction began nearly a year ago as part of a longer rail project that will link China to mainland Southeast Asia, a public ...

Mountainous and landlocked Lao PDR, known as the “Battery of Asia”, is building dozens of dams at breakneck speed so it can sell energy to power-hungry neighbours as a fast track out of poverty. But the communist country’s ambitious power plans are highly controversial. Keep reading ...

Laos has extended its lockdown COVID-19 prevention measures across the country for a further 15 days as the community spread of COVID-19 in the capital continues. Given the situation in neighboring countries and community spread in Lao capital Vientiane, the lockdown order would be extended until ...

Industrial-scale maize cultivation to produce animal feed, one of the two main reasons behind annual smog in the three Lower Mekong countries, has grown on a massive scale, satellite data analysis has revealed. More than 11.8 million rai (4.7 million acres) of forested area in the ...

The number of people travelling between Laos and China has increased, especially the number of Chinese visiting Laos from Hainan province, since a direct flight between Vientiane and Hainan came into service last year. The new sector has proved popular and is leading to more ...

Houa* sat on the doorstep of her bamboo house helping her grandmother pluck a chicken. She is not even ten years old, but she is learning how to become a ‘good wife.’ As the Covid pandemic and economic crisis hit the family hard, Houa dropped out ...

This section focuses mainly on the production, distribution and use of electrical energy in Laos. In Laos, electricity is a key source of energy for domestic economic activities and its export provides revenue from neighboring countries.1After an economic shift to an ‘open door’ policy in 1986, economic ...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and involved government bodies yesterday held a brainstorming session on a draft rural employment strategy which is being drawn up to ensure all ethnic groups have access to work. The session was organised to encourage all the authorities ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has issued a new regulation that enables authorities to check the quality and safety of pesticides before they are used on crops in Laos.Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Dr Lien Thikeo on September 17 signed ...

President Bounnhang Vorachit and President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers of Cuba, Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, yesterday agreed to deepen the traditionally friendly relations between the two countries during bilateral talks in Vientiane.More ...

The committee in charge has postponed the third nationwide agriculture survey, known as the Laos Census Agriculture 3 (LCA3), but has promised that the results of the survey will be made known before the Ninth National Socio-Economic Development Plan (NSEDP) is drawn up.More ...

The governments of Laos and China are set to approve cooperation projects to be financed with Chinese assistance, the Lao Prime Minister’s Office has announced.More  ...

The value of stocks traded on the Lao Securities Exchange saw rapid growth last year, according to a report from the Bank of the Lao PDR. The central bank released its annual report recently, providing an overview of the economic development of Laos last year ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – A delegation of the Communists of Russia (KR) led by Chairman of the Central Committee of the KR and Vice Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Maxim Suraykin is visiting Laos on the invitation of the Lao People’s Revolutionary ...

The Trinon Collegium Practicum of Germany is providing about US$1 million (more than 8 billion kip) to Laos from 2018 to 2021 to improve dental health services. A signing ceremony for Phase 3 of the dental upgrade project took place in Vientiane on Monday.More ...

(KPL) The Lao Techmart 2018 will be held at the Lao ITECC in Vientiane Capital between October 12 and 21 to promote ICT industry in Laos.More ...

The first ever International Jet Ski Championship in Lao PDR will kick off from 1-3 June 2018 @ Dansavanh Nam Ngum Resort. The competitions are of national and international rounds by leading Jet Ski teams.More ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), represented by the Department of Forest Inspection (DoFI) signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the World Wide Fund for Nature Laos Office (WWF-Laos) today at an event at the Vientiane Plaza Hotel.The MoU was signed by ...