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The government and development partners met in Vientiane on Friday to discuss translation of the key recommendations of the 2018 Round Table Meeting into concrete follow-up actions.The annual retreat on the 2019 Round Table process, which also discussed the roadmap towards the 2019 Round Table ...

Education authorities have given approval for some private colleges to raise their status to private education institutes so they can recommence bachelor and higher level courses.Two institutes, Rattana Business Administration College (RBAC) and Sengsavanh Administration College in Vientiane, have now been given the green light ...

(KPL) Representatives from the U.S. charitable organization Spirit of America and the U.S. Embassy officially handed over more than US$10,000 in equipment and support to the Laos Buffalo Dairy in Luang Prabang on Feb 14, 2019.The Laos Buffalo Dairy is an American co-owned business in ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Authorities in Xaysomboun province have chosen Khamphay Sana Group Company Limited to conduct a feasibility study of the Phou Bia tourism development project in Anouvong district.The project aims to develop tourism in the region to national standards along with environmental protection ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – AirAsia, named the World’s Best Low Cost Airline for 10 years running by Skytrax, has continued to introduce direct flights to Laos and now connects the country to 130 destinations across its Southeast Asia and Asian networks.AirAsia currently serves flights to ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao Development Bank (LDB) is partnering with the Laos-Japan Human Resource Development Institute (LJI) to boost capacity building for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Laos.A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under the cooperation of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) ...

OUDOMXAY,Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – If you’re visiting Oudomxay province in the northwest of Laos, be sure to go to Vat Pha Chao Singkham temple in La district and pray before its sacred Buddha image.The temple is the main cultural icon of La district and houses ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Two major global funds have joined forces to help the Lao government tackle climate change problems.The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Green Climate Fund (GCF) announced at a meeting with government representatives this week that they would establish a joint mission ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has told ministries and other state entities to ensure that recruitment of new civil servants this year is carried out in a ‘fair, just, open and qualified’ manner.The premier recently issued Decision No. 5 allocating a certain ...

State employees in many provinces of Laos have not received their January salaries in violation of a recent government mandate that the workers be paid on the 25th of every month, indicating that the directive may be a toothless effort to resolve a longstanding problem ...