Vientiane Times

Xekong provincial authorities are making additions and improvements to visitor attractions so they are easier to access and provide a more enjoyable tourist experience.An official with the province’s Information, Culture and Tourism Department, Mr Bounthong Sidonekhong, told Vientiane Times yesterday that authorities were making intensive preparations to ...

The government has obtained 2,221 tonnes of rice worth over 16 billion kip from the Asean plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR+3) for distribution to flood victims in Attapeu province.Each Asean member country has an emergency rice reserve, and the rice stock in Laos is ...

Industries that produce pollution may have to pay more taxes now that the government has embraced the National Green Growth Strategy.Under the strategy, which Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith endorsed on January 30, the Ministry of Finance will impose taxes to discourage industries from producing pollution ...

The Korean government is continuing to back rural development in Laos with the aim of supporting the country’s efforts to graduate from Least Developed Country status.The Korean government’s rural development project is concentrating on the capital Vientiane and villages in the provinces of Vientiane and ...

A Singapore non-governmental organisation (NGO), Radion International, will support child protection and development in Laos.  A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the project was signed with Laos’ Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in Vientiane recently, according to the Singapore Embassy. More ...

Schoolchildren in the capital and Xayaboury province will get extra help with reading thanks to funding support from Good Hands, an international development NGO based in the Republic of Korea.Hundreds of students and teachers in Xaythany and Sangthong districts in Vientiane and Kaenthao district in ...

The French government has provided grant assistance of over 14 billion kip (EUR 1.5 million) to fund a tea value-chain project in Laos. The three-year project is aimed at improving the quality of life and earnings of small-scale tea producers and developing a regulatory structure for ...

The Lao PDR highly values the efforts of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States of America (USA) in organising the second Summit between their two leaders on February 27-28, 2019, in Hanoi, Vietnam. The Lao PDR also praises the government and ...

Lao authorities have adopted measures that will allow easier access to credit and give added protection to minority investors in moves set to improve the country’s overall business environment.Accessing credit and protecting minority investors are two of the 11 indicators which the World Bank uses ...

A new wing has opened at Mittaphab Hospital (Friendship Hospital) in Vientiane as part of efforts to improve the standard of healthcare and raise the country’s health services to international standards. The new block will have about 308 beds, to add to the hospital’s existing 300-bed ...