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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government is endeavouring to stabilise the prices of various goods, including food items, against the backdrop of rising costs in the processing industry, the Prime Minister advised the National Assembly.The value of traded goods in the first four months of ...

(KPL) The first six months have witnessed 14 people’s lives claimed by dengue fever with five casualties reported in Vientiane Capital, three each in Savannakhet and Champassak, two in Saravan and one in Bolikhamxay.The National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology under the Ministry of Health ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Vientiane Youth Clinic and the Lao Women’s Union met with factory owners and managers last Friday to discuss ways to improve the sexual health knowledge and practices of factory employees.The meeting is part of the two organisations’ ongoing agenda to ...

The Japanese government has donated canned fish and rice worth 27 billion kip (US$3.2 million) towards the World Food Programme’s (WFP) school meals and resilience building projects in Laos.The assistance is specifically designed to help communities cope with disasters and incidents that impact food supplies.More ...

(KPL) The Thai Embassy in Vientiane in cooperation with the SCG and Thai entrepreneurs in Laos organized a health and dental check up event for hundreds of monks and novices in celebrating the recent royal coronation of King Rama X of Thailand and Thai Queen’s ...

(KPL) Mobile outreach and activities promoting sexual reproductive health aim to reach more garment factories in Vientiane Capital.Vientiane Youth Clinic (VYC) working with Lao Women’s Union (LWU) organized a consultation meeting with factory owners and managers in Vientiane Capital on Jun 7 to discuss expansion ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The governments of Laos and South Korea are teaming up to build a modern hospital in Vientiane to provide advanced healthcare services and reduce the number of people seeking treatment in neighbouring countries.The hospital is to be built at a cost ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Mahosot Hospital is partnering with experts from Asean countries including Thailand to improve treatment for patients with bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma).In 2017, a project to suppress, identify and treat bile duct cancer in Laos was initiated through a partnership research project ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao Women’s Union is partnering with Unicef and relevant ministries in a bid to protect more women and children from human trafficking.A consultation meeting on the drafting of guidelines concerning protection and assistance for the victims of trafficking took place ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Global Fund has forecast a budget of over US$2 million in assistance to Laos from 2018 to 2020 to assist with the elimination of malaria and reduce the impact of multi-drug resistance in five southern provinces.A funding agreement was signed on ...