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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, along with deputy ministers and ministry officials, yesterday visited and encouraged Chinese tourists who were hospitalised after being injured in a bus accident on Monday.The accident victims are receiving treatment at the Lao People’s Army ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) of South Korea will provide about US$7.5 million to Laos from 2019 to 2023 to improve maternal, newborn and child health in three provinces.A funding agreement was signed in Vientiane on Tuesday by the Director ...

Cambodia has asked Laos to speed up the transmission of energy to the kingdom under a deal signed earlier this year.In March, the Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) signed an agreement to purchase 200 MW from Laos from 2019 to 2021.Cambodian Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak urged ...

Health officials and local authorities need to provide more information about sexual and reproductive health services for young people in the hope of reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies.Unwanted pregnancies are one reason that women cannot get work outside the home and have limited prospects ...

Newly completed road construction in Saravan will improve access, particularly in poorer areas of the province, to markets, schools, health centres and public services.An official inauguration of new roads took place this week under Phase 6 of the Rural Infrastructure Programme in Samuay and Ta-oy ...

Ten undocumented Lao migrant workers were killed and three others were seriously injured in a head-on collision early Sunday in eastern Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province while traveling by van to Chanthaburi province on the border of Cambodia to renew their tourist visas, Thai police said.“There ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao and Thai governments are planning to build another “friendship” bridge to link their countries across the Mekong, bringing Vientiane province closer to the neighbouring Thai province of Loei, according to the new governor of Vientiane province.Speaking to the media ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Humanitarian groups from the government, the United Nations and international civil society organisations met last week to discuss gaps in national crisis response and ways to overcome them.The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), as the Logistic Cluster lead organisation, works ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and Vietnam are hoping to increase bilateral trade by 10 to 15 percent during 2019, with total trade last year valued at US$1.03 billion.Last year’s figure exceeded the plan by 10 percent. Two-way trade between Laos and Vietnam in the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is continuing to train frontline officials so they can pass on their technical skills and improve local farmers’ yields.Some 40 people from Phongsaly, Oudomxay, Luang Namtha, Bokeo and Luang Prabang provinces, as well as Vientiane, were ...