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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Some 125 families in three villages of Baeng district, Oudomxay province have been affected by floods after days of heavy rain, with property damage estimated at over 1 billion kip.Director of the provincial Labour and Social Welfare Department, Mr Somfong Sengchanthala, told Vientiane ...

The Cuban Government has provided scholarships for six Lao nationals to study in Cuba at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, as well as law and agronomy, for the academic year 2019-2020. A farewell ceremony for the scholarship awardees took place at the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and government officials last week visited the Savannakhet Dry Port and Savan Park to learn about their business operations and promote investment in these facilities.Mr Thongloun first viewed the operations of the Savannakhet Dry Port and also ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare has unveiled a new study, which delivers a strong message that the construction industry is suffering from a shortage of Lao workers and that a policy intervention is needed to address this deficiency.According to ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Budding Lao entrepreneurs have invited their counterparts from Cambodia to make more investment and to do business in Laos in order to boost cooperation in trade and entrepreneurial undertakings between the two sides.This cooperation will help young Lao and Cambodian entrepreneurs ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Industry and Commerce will continue efforts to improve or remove unnecessary measures and regulations relating to exports and imports to bolster cross-border trade.Officials in charge of trade facilitation met in Vientiane last week for the 2nd Trade Facilitation ...

More than 200 exhibitors from around the country are expected to attend this year’s Lao Handicraft Festival at the Lao International Trade Exhibition and Convention Centre (Lao-ITECC) in Vientiane from October 28 to November 3.Details of the upcoming event were revealed during a press conference ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has told Savannakhet provincial authorities to work harder to realise the “Three-open” policy he initiated to attract local and foreign investment in the central province, one of the country’s economic hubs.He made the comment last week during ...

The Indian government is supporting a course for technical staff at the Laos-India Centre of Excellence in Software Development and Training (CESDT) of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology as part of a US$1.3 million project.The CESDT project from 2017-2019 is a cooperative effort ...

The government and development partners have reviewed progress in implementing the ‘Bringing Justice Closer to Women Suffering from Gender Based Violence’ project from 2016-2019.The Vientiane National Commission for the Advancement of Women and Mother-Child (NCAWMC) and Sub Commission for the Advancement of Women on Friday ...