Vientiane Times

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a feasibility study of the planned expressway linking Vientiane and Pakxe, Section IV. This section will run from Road No. 15 in Saravan ...

Tourism officials in northern provinces last week learnt about the evaluation of Asean Community Based Tourism Standards with regard to major tourist sites.The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism together with staff from Bokeo, Oudomxay and Luang Prabang tourism departments convened three training sessions on ...

Laos needs to overcome the pressing issue of inequality as the country prepares to abandon its Least Developed Country (LDC) status supposedly by 2024, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has said.Inequality remains one of the major challenges in Laos, the UN agency said as ...

Lao officials and representatives from the World Health Organisation (WHO) are meeting in Vientiane to discuss ways to improve coordination between emergency medical teams.Better coordination is necessary to integrate the services provided by these teams to ensure the quality and timeliness of medical care for ...

The government has reaffirmed its commitment to the ongoing promotion of the tourism sector even though the Visit Laos Year 2018 campaign will soon come to a close.More ...

Central and local state departments are preparing to streamline the organisation of their various divisions, following a government order.Earlier this year, Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith issued Executive Order No.03 requiring all state departments to merge their subordinate offices or divisions whose scope of work overlapped.More ...

Lao anaesthesiologists, experts and cooperation partners met in Vientiane on Friday to review their work in the sector and discuss methods of improving patient care and providing safe anaesthetics.More ...

The company contracted to build an 11-km road running from Donnokkhoum village in Sisattanak district to the 450 Year Road in Xaysettha district is speeding up the pace of work, aiming to complete the project by the end of 2019.More ...

Laos’ first centre for inspecting the quality of tourism and hospitality operators is to be established to raise the bar in service standards. More ...

As of next year steel and cement importers in Laos will no longer need an import licence after the government issued an order calling for an end to the licence requirement.The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has directed the departments of industry and commerce throughout ...