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Xieng Khuang prepares for Plain of Jars World Heritage inspection
Xieng Khuang province: Minister of Informational, Culture and Tourism, Prof. Dr Bosengkham Vongdara, who also chairs the National Commission for World Heritage, is meeting with ministry and provincial officials to discuss progress in heritage listing the Plain of Jars.More ...
Khonesavanh Latsaphao
PM touts ‘three opens’ policy to Japanese investors
Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith introduced Laos’ ‘three opens’ policy on investment to participants at the Mekong-Japan Business Forum in Tokyo, which was organised by the Japan External Trade Organisation.More ...
Times Reporters
Rural communities oblivious to available labour information
Laos needs to cooperate with labour experts from Asean countries and development partners to improve the national labour market information system (LMIS) to benefit rural workers.More ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Science and Technology Minister Urges Greater Contributions To Science, Technology Development
(KPL) Minister of Science and Technology Boviengkham Vongdara has called on officials, students, researchers and scientists to continue their research and broaden their knowledge to benefit the science and technology development in Laos.More ...
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DPM calls for improving basic infrastructure for flood victims in Attapeu
Allocation of farm land and provision of rice seedlings to people displaced by floods must be hastened, Deputy Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone has told authorities in Attapeu province.More ...
Times Reporters
Mother and Child Hospital claims success with IVF treatment
Mother and Child Hospital (MCH) in Vientiane has presented its successful results of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments using intracytoplasmic sperm Injection (ICSI) for women wanting to fall pregnant.This year, the hospital has recorded a 90 percent success rate in women falling pregnant through IVF ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Climate change threatens nation’s food security
Climate change is threatening agricultural production and posing a major challenge to Laos and other countries’ efforts at strengthening world food security, according to a leading official.More ...
Times Reporters
Australia’s Endeavour Scholarship Gives High Priority To Lao PDR
(KPL) Applications are now open for the 2019 Round of the Australian Government Endeavour Leadership Programme, which provides scholarships for high-performing international students, researchers and professionals to undertake short or long-term education, training and research opportunities in Australia.More ...
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World Day Against Death Penalty: EU Notes “de facto moratorium” in Laos
The European Union has restated a commitment to work with all countries including Laos to encourage moves toward achieving a global abolition of the death penalty, a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is killed by the state as a punishment for a crime.More ...
The Laotian Times editor
Laos, Japan Highly Value Bilateral Cooperation
(KPL) Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have highly valued the bilateral cooperation between the two countries under the Mekong-Japan cooperation framework, especially the implementation of the activities under Tokyo Strategy 2015 and Action Plan for Realising Tokyo Strategy 2016-2018.More ...
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