Lao PDR Steps Up Fight Against “super-bugs’’

(KPL) The government of Lao PDR is stepping up its fight against the emergence of so-called “super-bugs’’: infections that do not respond to commonly used antibiotics.Backed by international partners, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry launched on Nov 19 a ...

KPL News Desk

Japan Team to Support Lao Table Tennis

Japanese professional table tennis team, Okayama Rivets, has donated table tennis gear to the Laos Table Tennis Federation, saying it will continue to support Laos improve its table tennis industry.Okayama Rivet, established in 2018, is Okayama-based table tennis team that plays in Japanese professional table ...

Taejun Kang

Lao National Institute of Nutrition, Lao-American Nutrition Initiative launched

(KPL) In order to help improve the nutrition of Lao citizens, especially children, the United States, in close cooperation with the Lao Ministry of Health, opened the Lao National Institute of Nutrition and the Lao-American Nutrition Initiative (LANI) on Nov 14, 2019 in Vientiane Capital.The beautiful new institute, which ...

KPL News Desk

Laos to Complete First Baseball Stadium in December

Laos is to complete the construction of the country’s first baseball stadium this December.South Korea’s financial group DGB Group will support KRW 300 million (USD 256,200) for the construction of the stadium, with land and other necessary support provided by the Lao government.The country began construction in ...

Taejun Kang

Feature: China-Laos joint poverty alleviation project transforms Lao hilly village

VIENTIANE, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) — Some two hours’ drive on bumpy roads to the north from Laos’ capital Vientiane lies the village Ban Xor of Sangthong district, settled among the hills.Among the 407 households, or 2,007 residents in the village, half live in poverty with ...

Yurou

Champassak villagers set to benefit from community health project

World Concern Lao (WCL) and the Ministry of Health are partnering in the launch of Phase 3 of the Integrated Development Project for Community Health Promotion in Phonthong district, Champassak province.The project will take place from 2020 to 2022 and will benefit more than 3,000 ...

Times Reporters

Multi-sectoral approach launches projects to reduce undernutrition

Two new projects, namely Reducing Rural Poverty and Malnutrition, and Scaling-Up Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, were launched in Vientiane on Wednesday to tackle the issue of childhood undernutrition.The projects are being supported by the World Bank at a cost of 460 billion kip (US$52 ...

Keoviengkhone Bounviseth

Laos, Cuba agree on cooperation in medical science

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and Cuba have agreed to promote cooperation in the fields of public health and medical science.An agreement was signed in Havana during foreign minister Saleumxay Kommasith’s official visit to Cuba from November 11-12, in response to an invitation from his ...

Times Reporters

China, Laos sign poverty alleviation aid document

VIENTIANE, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) — Chinese and Lao officials signed a document for carrying out China aid projects for poverty alleviation in Laos on Wednesday in Lao capital Vientiane.Wang Qihui, economic and commercial counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Laos and Saysana Sithiphone, chief cabinet ...

Lu Hui

Australia provides aid to improve health, gender equality in Savannakhet

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Australian government has provided more than 25 billion kip (AUD4.2 million) to improve equitable access and use of safe sanitation and hygiene in Savannakhet province.A Memorandum of Understanding was signed recently between the Head of Savannakhet province’s Health Department, Dr ...

Phomphong Laoin

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