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China and Thailand have both ban pork and pig product imports from Laos following the country’s first outbreak of African swine fever.The first cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been reported in Laos, with seven outbreaks across villages in Salavanh Province, leading to the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Bank of the Lao PDR requires closer cooperation with relevant sectors to create a national QR code standard for banks and financial institutions to further enable the convenient payment service.Officials from different banks and financial institutions, including representatives from relevant ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – National Assembly members supported the amendment of the land law but expressed concerns about the continuing loss of state lands and conversion of agricultural land into other classifications.During the debate at the ongoing session, members learned about many state lands under ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Vientiane’s first-ever Water Treatment Project for wastewater treatment will be implemented next year.This was announced at a conference on “Opportunity and Challenge of Wastewater Treatment in Laos”, organised by Lao Project Company and Ministry of Public Works and Transport on Thursday.According ...

The Ministry of Finance believes the management of the public finance system will be more effective, transparent and auditable after two supporting reform projects were officially launched last Friday.The two-newly launched initiatives are the Enhancing Public Finance Management through Information and Communication Technology and Skills ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The governments of the United States and Norway and Fagforbundet will provide a grant of more than 243 billion kip (US$28,030,453) to support an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey, clearance and capacity development activities in Laos.The funding will be provided to the ...

The Lao government has thanked Thailand for sending disinfection equipment to help contain an outbreak of African swine fever in Salavane province.Department of Livestock Development director-general Sorawit Thanito said on Sunday his counterpart in the Lao Department of Livestock and Fisheries had sent a letter ...

PARIS (Reuters) – Laos has reported its first cases of African swine fever (ASF), confirming outbreaks in the southern province of Saravane, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday.More ...

Lao and Thai officials have agreed to continue cooperating in the labour sector aiming to ensure the legal status of Lao workers who can prove their identity in Thailand.Meanwhile, Lao authorities have promised to help illegal workers wanting to return home to acquire passports so ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos joined other Asean countries for dialogue on pushing forward the alignment of public policy and a regulatory framework to promote a regional cloud computing environment.More than 60 participants from Asean member states, Japanese experts, government officials from ministries, and representatives ...