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Lao Airlines to fly to Changsha
LUANG PRABANG, 18 October 2018: Lao Airline is introducing a scheduled flight that will wing in Chinese tourists from Changsha to this World Heritage town. Due to start 31 October, the weekly flight is scheduled every Wednesday, but is not bookable on the airline’s website.More ...
Don Ross
Vietnamese firm offers aid to Lao dam-collapse victims
Vientiane (VNA) – Representatives from the branch of Indo Tran Logistics Corporation of Vietnam in Laos on October 17 handed over 12,300 USD to Laos’s Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare to support Lao people affected by the July dam collapse in Attapeu. More ...
VNA editor
SK E&C’s attempts to cut costs led to design changes that resulted in collapse of dam in Laos
SK E&C attempted to earn excessive profits with changes to the format and design of a dam in Laos that eventually collapsed last July, an internal document confirmed on Oct. 14. Indeed, the heights of the collapsed dam and other auxiliary dams handled by SK ...
Seo Young-ji
Colorful activities to be part of boat racing festival in Oudomxay
Colorful activities will be part of the boat racing festival at Nafang village in Houn district of Oudomxay province to welcome domestic and international tourists.More ...
Times Reporters
Multimillion-dollar assistance for dam collapse victims
Developers of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Hydropower project have extended a multimillion dollar aid to the victims of the dam collapse for relief and recovery operations in Sanamxay, Deputy Prime Minister said this week.The flash floods in Southern Attapeu province were caused by the collapse of ...
Times Reporters
Health researchers put non-communicable disease control under microscope
Representatives from development partners and line departments of the Ministry of Health met yesterday in Vientiane to discuss the control of non-communicable diseases (NCD).The discussion was part of the three-day 12th National Health Research Forum (12th NHRF) which concluded yesterday and also covered achieving universal ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Senior U.S. Official Meets With Lao Government On Indo-Pacific Strategy
(KPL) On October 14-16, a senior official from the U.S. State Department visited Laos to review the continued progress in bilateral relations and to brief Lao officials on the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy.More ...
KPL
Poverty, hunger worsened by challenges at home, worldwide
A number of persistent problems have worsened poverty and hunger in countries across the globe including Laos, a minister told an event yesterday that marked World Food Day, and International Day and National Week for Poverty Eradication.More ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
Laos-China join forces in fight against cancer
Specialists from Laos joined with counterparts from China in Vientiane on Friday under the umbrella of the ongoing Lao Techmart exhibition at Lao-ITECC aiming to improve the treatment and care of patients with cancer.During the meeting, cancer experts from the Institute for Research of Science ...
Times Reporters
UN Migration Agency, Lao Immigration Department, Cooperate to Tackle Human Trafficking and Smuggling
Vientiane – The UN Migration Agency (IOM) and the Department of Immigration (DoI) of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic have launched a first training by DoI Master Trainers for police and frontline border guards to increase the country’s capacity to tackle human trafficking and people ...
International Organization for Migration
