Forest industry
Logging and timber
Thousand of sawmills closed, hundreds of wrongdoers penalised: PM
Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith told the National Assembly (NA) yesterday that 1,545 small-scale wood processing plants and businesses that had been operating illegally had been shut down nationwide. Some 702 people were found to be involved in the illegal operation of the plants and businesses ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
Attapeu police seize 2 tonnes of illegally harvested timber
Attapeu provincial police on Monday stopped a bus driven by a Vietnamese national passing through the Phoukeua international checkpoint into Vietnam, and confiscated a large amount of illegally harvested timber that was hidden inside the bus.More ...
Vientiane Times
Illegal logging found in Savannakhet as to Prime Minister’s Decree No15
Over the last two years, Savannakhet authorities has discovered a number of illegal logging cases which infringed the laws and regulations on governance of timbers and logging entrepreneurship. Provincial forest inspection authorities have investigated 279 cases violating Lao Forestry Law and Wildlife and Aquatic Law ...
Laos Update