Shelter, clean food and hygienic toilets are priorities: PM   

Attapeu province: Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has told local authorities to focus on providing temporary shelters, food, health services and toilets, which he said were priorities for people made homeless after the flood in Sanamxay district.More ...

Bounfaeng Phaymanivong

Fears of UXO threat to Attapeu flood victims

Experts in the field have warned about the additional grave danger of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district in the wake of last week’s fatal flooding. The experts fear that bombs buried in soil or mud could have been disturbed by the flood, ...

Vientiane Times reporter

Flood victims to have temporary housing within two months

Temporary housing will be built, with completion slated within two months, to accommodate people left homeless after widespread flooding in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, authorities in charge have said.More ...

Vientiane Times reporter

Govt approves compensation policy for dam burst victims

People affected by widespread flooding in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, look set to receive full compensation as the government has determined that the flood was not a natural disaster.More ...

Ekaphone Phouthonesy

Foreign media personnel welcome to register, report fatal flooding

Foreign media outlets and their personnel have sought to report the disastrous dam-failure-inflicted flooding from the ground in Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district. The interest comes as the rescue operation intensifies in the painstaking and exhausting search for any signs of those still missing. More ...

Somsack Pongkhao

Vaccination drive at Attapeu’s flood relief shelters gets a push 

Health authorities have begun to provide vaccines against typhoid, cholera, tetanus and more to flood victims to prevent against the possible communicable disease outbreaks in flood-affected areas in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province. Some 2,979 cases of illness from dysentery, pneumonia, athlete’s foot and respiratory problems have ...

Xayxana Leukai

Heat-detection, forensic assistance accepted in Sanamxay flood response

Authorities in charge have accepted Singapore’s proposal to send a rescue team with heat-detecting drone technology in an attempt to locate alive any of the 120 people still missing after the July 23 flooding in Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district resulting from a dam collapse.More ...

Souksakhone Vaenkeo

Weary rescuers head homeward bound with nation’s gratitude

Sanamxay district, Attapeu province: The number of confirmed fatalities remained at 11 as of yesterday’s conclusion of the ground search and rescue mission on day eight following the devastation caused by floodwaters from the failure of the saddle dam D at the provinces under-construction Xepian-Xenamnoy hydropower ...

Bounfaeng Phaymanivong

315 villages in Khammouane province impacted by floods

Up till July 31, there are totally 315 villages in Khammouane province that have been affected by flood, added 6 villages of yesterday’s data. This is responsible for 17,595 households, and 28,613 hectares of farming areas impacted, an increase from 13,589 households and 25,049 hectares ...

Kongkham

Flood victim’s body found on Cambodian side

Vientiane Times reporter Mr BounfaengPhaymanivong said this morning that rescuers had found another body on Cambodian soil though it was yet to be confirmed whether it was a flood victim.More ...

Souknilundon Southivongnorath

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