Disasters and emergency response
Disaster preparedness and emergency response policy and administration
Southern Laos speeds up school damage appraisal after flooding
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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Authorities are speeding up their assessment of the damage and losses caused after Tropical Storm Podul hit infrastructure including school buildings in the nation’s south.An official in charge at the Ministry of Education and Sports yesterday told Vientiane Times they have ...
Keoviengkhone Bounviseth
http://annx.asianews.network/content/southern-laos-speeds-school-damage-appraisal-after-flooding-104379
Lao govt decides on measures to address flood impact
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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government has stressed the availability of food and clean water along with safety and disease prevention for flood-impacted communities still staying in temporary accommodation and shelters.Measures to address this year’s flood disaster were approved by the government at its meeting on ...
Somxay Sengdara
http://annx.asianews.network/content/lao-govt-decides-measures-address-flood-impact-104378
Flood-hit regions need nation’s assistance now
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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Even as flood levels continue to drop, thousands of people in the south of Laos are hungry and in need of help from the government, organisations and public.They don’t have enough food, drinking water, kitchen equipment, bedding, and other essentials.Tropical depression ...
Authorities continue to help victims in flood-hit provinces
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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Authorities are repairing infrastructure and facilities, especially roads, bridges, schools and hospitals to ensure that flood victims at accommodation centres remain healthy and receive food and drinking water, a leading official said.Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Dr Khampheng Saysompheng told ...
Siladda Souliyong
http://annx.asianews.network/content/authorities-continue-help-victims-flood-hit-lao-provinces-103886
Lao speeding up flood assistance in southern provinces
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The National Disaster Prevention and Control Committee yesterday met in Vientiane to discuss ways to improve disaster assistance delivery to flood-affected people in six southern provinces, especially supplying drinking water, food, and household essentials.The meeting was chaired by Minister of Labour ...
Phomphong Laoin
http://annx.asianews.network/content/lao-speeding-flood-assistance-southern-provinces-103794
Govt assisting, closely following plight of flood victims
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, leaders of committees and provincial authorities last week visited people in provinces that have been affected by the recent widespread flooding.During the visit to the provinces of Savannakhet, Champassak and Saravan on September 7, Prime Minister Thongloun ...
Siladda Souliyong
http://annx.asianews.network/content/laos-assisting-closely-following-plight-flood-victims-103792
Govt sends emergency supplies to flood-hit south
Officials and military personnel last week used aircraft and trucks supplied by the Lao People’s Army to deliver emergency supplies including drinking water, food, boats, tents and household essentials to six provinces devastated by floods. Tropical depression Podul and other weather systems that have passed over ...
Phomphong Laoin
Driftwood saves fisherman stranded in middle of Mekong
CHAMPASSAK, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – A fisherman who was stranded on a rocky outcrop in the Mekong River in Khong district, Champassak province, on Monday was rescued at 2 am on Wednesday.The fisherman, identified as Mr Pong, 41, from Phiengdy village, was immediately taken to ...
News Desk
http://annx.asianews.network/content/driftwood-saves-fisherman-stranded-middle-mekong-103444
Huaphan speeds up search for six missing in landslide
Huaphan provincial authorities are speeding up their search for six people missing after a landslide swept away two houses in Hindam village, Viengxay district on August 3.Seven people were reported missing. One body was found several days later and identified as being one of the ...
Phomphong Laoin
Tropical storm Podul set to hit Laos today
Tropical storm Podul is on track to lash northern, southern and central areas of the country and everyone should be on the alert for heavy rain and winds due to storm activity from August 29 to September 1.The storm is currently heading westward at a ...
Times Reporters