VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Entrepreneurs and business owners in Laos are now able to utilise the vast expertise of Ortus Mining Laos to develop mining projects.Ortus Mining Laos, a subsidiary of Ortus Mining Capital, told Vientiane Times recently that they are focused on the development ...

KASIKORNBANK Plc (KBank) plans to boost its business in Laos by applying for a new licence for mobile banking and digital platform to drive its year-on-year growth to 15 per cent in 2019, Pattanapong Tansomboon, KBank’s first senior vice president, said recently.More ...

Members of the National Assembly (NA) yesterday passed a newly drafted law to better facilitate Laos’ diplomatic mission in foreign countries and to protect the interests of the nation and Lao expats overseas.More ...

Continuing economic growth and the notable progress in poverty reduction are milestones in the country’s progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This progress was highlighted by the National Steering Committee for SDG Implementation at its second meeting held on Wednesday to discuss Laos’ ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The legislative bodies of Laos and Cambodia should continue to encourage their respective governments to address border issues to allow the completion of border marker installation.This proposal was made at a bilateral meeting between high-level delegations from the Lao National Assembly ...

The Lao Brewery Company has provided 500 million kip to the Ministry of Health to improve the nation’s health services in response to public demand. The ministry will use the funds to acquire modern medical equipment for dispensaries and district and provincial hospitals which will help ...

Law courts in many Asian countries are overburdened. A perfect storm of factors including rapid economic growth, urbanisation, industrialisation and the withering away of traditional governance systems has caused the number of criminal and civil cases to soar. Courts are often ill-equipped to cope with ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – More than 200 handicraft business units from all over the country are displaying a wide range of traditional and modern products at the Lao Handicraft Festival in Vientiane.The nine-day festival, with the theme “Promote Lao Handicrafts through Tourism”, was officially opened ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The agriculture sector has not grown as anticipated, as a result of weather extremes, according to a recent government recent report. The government has forecast that the sector will grow by 2.8 percent this year so long as there is no flooding, ...

BANGKOK — It wasn’t a flood. It was a tsunami, Premrudee Daorung said of the wall of water that tore through the forests of Laos’ Attapeu province, snapping timber like matchsticks and flattening entire villages.More ...

Vientiane Exchange Money will become the first international currency exchange provider that has been certified to allow cryptocurrency transactions. This is considered a momentous occasion and the importance of how new technology will play a role in peoples’ lives, offering new experiences and opportunities in ...

Trade development of the Cambodia-Laos-Việt Nam (CLV) Development Triangle Area remains modest and unsynchronised, failing to match the potential and the strategic co-operation between the three countries, participants were told at the 11th Trade and Tourism Promotion Forum of the CLV Development Triangle Area held ...

Authorities in charge have approved the amount of compensation to be paid to people who have lost land or other property due to the construction of the Laos-China railway. Governor of Luang Prabang province, Mr Khamkhan Chanthavisouk, recently issued a decision detailing the compensation rate ...

VIENTIANE – “Every project department of China Railway is ready to be dispatched at any time!”At the end of July, when a deadly flash flood swept through Attapeu province of southern Laos, China Railway, a Chinese company constructing the China-Laos Railway in the country, provided ...

Laos and San Marino have agreed to establish diplomatic relations with the aim of bolstering fields of cooperation between the two countries.More ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Some 125 families in three villages of Baeng district, Oudomxay province have been affected by floods after days of heavy rain, with property damage estimated at over 1 billion kip.Director of the provincial Labour and Social Welfare Department, Mr Somfong Sengchanthala, told Vientiane ...

(KPL) The 13th Meeting of the Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation between Laos and Cambodia (JC) was held in Vientiane on Feb 22 to evaluate the implementation of the minutes of the 12th JC meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia in December 2014 and exchange points of view on bilateral cooperation ...

Lao authorities are cooperating with Thailand as the southern neighbour’s Labour Ministry hastened the registration of nearly 170,000 undocumented migrant labourers in the country. Thailand’s Labour Minister Adul Sangsingkeo said the ministry’s one-stop service centres would have 169,517 migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar legally ...

Laos is working towards its target to wipe out illiteracy by planning for everyone aged 15-35 to complete the equivalent of lower secondary schooling by 2020, with a focus on development and higher enrolment in primary and lower secondary schools.More ...

The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has provided more than 5.5 billion kip (US$651,293) to implement a project in Laos in support of regional BioTrade.The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the socio-economic development of Laos through the conservation of ...