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(KPL) The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC) has presented 30 computers and three laptops to the Ministry of Education and Sports to distribute to 11 secondary schools and primary schools in Vientiane Capital.A handover ceremony for the donation package was held in ...

(KPL) Hongsa District Agricultural Promotion Cooperative, Xayaboury province has received water filtering equipment worth over 100,000 baht from by the Hongsa Power Company.The hanover of the equipment took place on Monday between Managing Director of Hongsa Power Company, Mr Kathayuth Chupoon and Head of Agricultural ...

(KPL) The effectiveness of the collaborative management of Hin Nam No National Protected Area (NPA) increased by around 16% since 2014, when its co-management system was established.This remarkably improved park management performance is a testament to Hin Nam No’s readiness to join Vietnam’s Phong Nha-Ke ...

Lao workers, many of them young and some still in their teens, have poured in growing numbers this year into neighboring Thailand, braving exploitation and unsafe work conditions in search of employment to help support families back home, sources in the Southeast Asian nation say.Many ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Vientiane provincial authorities have warned they will revoke the licences of investors who have not made progress in the development of their concession projects.Speaking on the occasion of his recent appointment to the post, provincial Governor Mr Khamphanh Sitthidampha told the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Tourism officials from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (CLV) are discussing a draft plan on tourism development in the triangle area covering 13 provinces of the three countries.The talks are taking place in Pakxe, Champassak province, during the 3rd Working Group Meeting ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The United Nations (UN) has listed the improvement of Lao people’s living conditions as being at the heart of all the development programmes it plans to carry out in Laos in the coming years, according to the new United Nations chief ...

Government officials and FAO officials are meeting in Vientiane to discuss agriculture, nutrition, and land holding and use in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).A training workshop titled “Agriculture, Nutrition, and Land Holding and Use to Support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 in ...

On the morning of August 27, at the Lao Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Anousith Khattignarath, Deputy Head of the National Boundary Committee, gave the following statement to the press on the situation at the Lao-Cambodian border.“Misinformation has been spread among social media last week ...

India is poised to include Laos in plans for a global electricity grid, in response to an evolving energy security architecture.The country will present proposals for the grid at the second general assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) to be held in New Delhi from October ...