Roads and bridges

Road users are being warned to avoid the section of road running from Kasy district, Vientiane province to Nan district in Luang Prabang province which has become slippery and affected by landslides. Director of Vientiane provincial Public Works and Transport Department, Mr Soumountha Somchanmavong told ...

A project to lay asphalt on 10 kilometres of road between the Thongkarp junction and the Huaytong checkpoint in Xayaboury province, linking to Song Khwae district in Nan province, Thailand, is now 35percent complete. The progress was reported when the Xayaboury provincial Governor Mr Phongsavanh ...

Compensation has now been paid to some villagers affected by the planned construction of the Vientiane-Boten Expressway to link the capital with the northern province of Luang Namtha, which shares a border with China. The government and a Chinese company from Yunnan province will jointly develop ...

Government officials and members of international organisations met in Vientiane yesterday for talks on road maintenance, with a view to better regulating road transport and preventing damage by overloaded trucks.More  ...

The Lao government and Korean experts have continued discussions about upgrading National Road No. 8 in Borikhamxay province to Asean highway standards. The two sides met yesterday in Vientiane to discuss a “Detailed Feasibility Study for Upgrading National Road No. 8 in Borikhamxay Province on the ...

Three companies have been shortlisted to carry out construction of an expressway linking Vientiane city centre to the outskirts, with the new road aimed at easing traffic congestion in the capital. The 15-km expressway will run from Lao-ITECC in Xaysettha district to Dongmakkhai village in ...

The government will soon sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with four construction companies from Laos and China to carry out a survey, feasibility study and detailed design of the Vientiane-Pakxe Expressway.More ...

A fifth Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge linking Borikhamxay province with Bung Kan province in Thailand is set for construction after authorities from both sides gave the official go ahead.  An official from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, who wished to remain anonymous, told Vientiane Times on ...

Laos and Vietnam have approved plans to build a Vientiane-Hanoi highway passing through Laos’ central province of Borikhamxay and Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An, over a distance of about 700 kilometres. An official from Borikhamxay province, who did not wish to be named, told Vientiane ...

People living in remote areas of Borikhamxay province have asked for better roads but the government has not been able to meet their needs because of chronic budget constraints.Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith addressed the matter on Friday when meeting Borikhamxay’s leaders, core officials, and local ...