VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos is likely to enjoy a trade surplus of about US$121 million for the first six months of the year, even as the government is predicting an overall trade deficit of around US$259 million for 2019.Projected exports for the first six ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on political consultation and cooperation between Laos’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.More ...

The government of Australia will contribute US$2.5 million in additional funding for the ongoing Second Trade Development Facility Project, aiming to improve trade and Laos’ business environment. An official launch ceremony for the additional financing took place on March 13 at the Ministry of Industry ...

(KPL) WWF today (September 6) congratulated the Government of Laos for hosting a key regional meeting on transboundary illegal wildlife trade and for its commitment to tackling wildlife crime that threatens endangered species such as the elephants, tigers, bears and pangolin.More ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Science and Technology will continue collaborating with the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre in the field of tropical ecology research, to advance the good relationship between the three countries.The message was delivered by the Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. ...

The Vietnamese government is continuing its support programme by providing 1,273 scholarships for Lao students and officials to study in Laos and Vietnam this year.The details were revealed in an official report tabled at a meeting in Vientiane yesterday to highlight achievements in cooperation and ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Finance ministries of Laos and Vietnam have committed to further enhancing the implementation of strategic cooperation in the finance sector with both sides having signed for 2016-2020 and settling on several focuses for improvement.This year, Vietnam is also set to ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao and Vietnamese business associations are set to cooperate with each other to promote stable and sustainable growth of the Lao economy as part of their shared goal to achieve prosperity.The Young Entrepreneurs Association of Laos (YEAL) and the Vietnam ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Hundreds of business sector representatives from five provinces of Laos have benefited from a training course on professional employee development aimed at boosting efficient management in their workplaces.Since 2016, more than 500 participants from various companies in Laos have been professionally ...

SAVANNAKHET, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – President Bounnhang Vorachit has impressed upon authorities in Xepon and Thapangthong districts of Savannakhet province the need to tackle antisocial behaviour, such as drug abuse, in order to maintain social order.More ...

Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith yesterday expressed optimism that economic growth would recover in the near future, saying the current stagnation was necessary because the government was attempting to put the economy on a sustainable path.“The slower growth of the economy is necessary because the economic ...

VIENTIANE — The Lao Government and Việt Phương Group (VPG) from Việt Nam on Tuesday signed a contract for exploiting and processing bauxite ore and building an alumina factory in Laos’ Sekong province. With total investment of about US$650 million, this will be Việt Nam’s biggest ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Government officials gathered with representatives of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japanese Embassy to Laos in Vientiane on Friday to discuss improvements in the field of public investment management (PIM).Participants discussed the structure of the proposed committee to lead ...

Laos was one of five countries in the Asia-Pacific region to receive a 2018 FAO Model Farmers Award, with the awards ceremony held at the FAO regional office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok on October 19.The award recipients for 2018, which are given ...

(KPL) The Lao PDR’s delegation headed by Mr. Bounkeut Sangsomsack, Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, Chairman of the National Steering Committee on Human Rights participated in the 123rd session of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva on 11-12 July 2018 for the consideration of ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – More than 600 participants from 168 institutions which are members of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) attended the International Congress of Supreme Audit Institutions (XXIII INCOSAI) XXIII in Russia recently.The Lao delegation attending the meeting was led by ...

An unhealthy haze of smog has descended upon the capital city of Vientiane and air pollution has been noted in several other provinces around Laos.Concerned local and international residents have been monitoring the situation, posting online their own amateur updates on the local levels of atmospheric ...

(KPL) Provincial officials and community leaders met with the World Wide Fund for Nature in Laos (WWF-Laos) in Phiang district, Xayaboury Province on Feb 7, 2019 to review the outcome of the survey and mapping of household land use and holdings, income, and other socio-economic ...

The Bank of the Lao PDR must introduce more concrete measures to keep the value of the kip stable, otherwise the country will face a big challenge in keeping the cost of living at an acceptable level, according to a report from the Lao National ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Lao economic growth will remain moderate in 2019 and 2020, as expansion in the industry and services sectors softened in the first half of 2019 due to fewer international visitor arrivals, according to a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecast.Additionally, the ...