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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 ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The White Charcoal Producers for Export Group (WPEG) is working with the government and local communities on a project to plant Cratexylum formosum (mai tiew) saplings in some of the country’s least developed regions in the hope it will help boost trade and ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Some 153 land titles have been found to be duplicates as a result of the National Assembly’s recent inspection, a senior lawmaker has confirmed.Landholders attempted to use the duplicate land titles as collateral to obtain loans from banks and other financial ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The business environment is expected to improve dramatically in the coming years as the government intensifies action to better facilitate business, Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has told the National Assembly.The premier was responding to a question raised by members of parliament ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Prof. Dr Bosengkham Vongdara, has asked for cooperation from the relevant state agencies to protect and maintain tourist attractions in Vangvieng after learning that they are under threat from the growing number of manufacturing ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – National Assembly members on Friday approved the appointment of Khampha Sengdara as the new President of the People’s Supreme Court, and Vidong Xayasone as the new Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office.Approval of the two appointments was given after being proposed ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – More than 800,000 primary school students across the country will use new textbooks in September as part of the new national primary school curriculum that is being rolled out over the coming years.This year, more than 16,600 Grade 1 teachers, school ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos is hoping that its ranking in the global ease of doing business (EODB) index will improve after the government rolls out measures to drive the economy forward by simplifying business operations.In 2019, only Myanmar ranked lower than Laos amongst the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The State Enterprise for Agriculture Service (SAS) has agreed to partner with the Wanma International Import and Export Trading Co., Ltd. of China to develop agricultural production in Laos for domestic consumption and export.The agreement was signed in Vientiane last week ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The US-China trade war has yet to impact upon trade between Laos and China, a Chinese diplomat has confirmed.Speaking to Lao media in Vientiane on Thursday, Chinese Ambassador to Laos Jiang Zaidong said the trade cooperation between the two countries continued ...