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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Xieng Khuang provincial authorities are attempting to stamp out the cultivation of opium poppies after local officials reported an increase in the number of illicit plantations in several districts.Opium poppies have been found growing in seven districts of Xieng Khuang province. ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao Securities Exchange (LSX) will continue to inform the public about stock market operations through regular cooperation with regional and international partners, to promote development of the stock market.Many Lao people still don’t understand the procedures involved in stock market ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Lao authorities say there will be no alteration of the import policy on motorbikes including tax rates despite some calls for change with motorbike sales on the wane.“The government’s motorcycle import policy is not changing this year. The import tax as ...

CHAMPASSAK, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – If you would like to sample authentic organic Lao tea, there may be no better place to go than Pakxong district in Champassak province.More ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government has unveiled a new national development vision, which it plans to achieve from 2021 to 2025.According to government guidelines on the implementation of the 2019 national socio-economic development plan, which were distributed at a recent meeting of finance and ...

Construction of a six-storey hospital in Paek district, Xieng Khuang province, costing more than 82 billion kip is nearly half complete.The building is now 42 percent complete after work began in 2017, with completion expected in 2020.The hospital will have an outpatient department, wards containing ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Government Inspection Authority (GIA) has told law enforcement agencies to create conditions that enable people from all walks of life to participate in the fight against corruption.GIA Chairman Dr Bounthong Chitmany recently issued an instruction in this regard to facilitate ...

(KPL) The government of Japan has provided grant assistance worth over 217,000 US dollars for supporting the project dedicated to empower people with disabilities in the Lao PDR.The signing ceremony for a grant contract for this project was held at the Japanese Embassy on Jan ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Department of Energy Management in the Ministry of Energy and Mines plans to modernise the power system and increase its overall capacity by installing additional hydro-power plants that utilise the best and latest technologies.Speaking at a two-day workshop titled Business ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos scored 29 points and maintained the same position as it did in 2017 in Transparency International’s 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which was released on Tuesday.Scores on the index range from 0 to 100 where 0 represents extremely corrupt and ...