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Military flies in supplies for Attapeu flood victims

Sanamxay district, Attapeu province: Military personnel are continuing to deliver food, drinking water, clothes, medicines and other supplies by helicopter to two temporary accommodation centres here, as trucks are unable to access the area.More  ...

Phomphong Laoin

DPM: Expedite search, relief, recovery in Attapeu

Authorities in charge were told to work harder to speed up the search, relief, and recovery effort after the flash flood in Attapeu province, where 99 people are still missing.More ...

Souksakhone Vaenkeo

Construction of temporary houses underway in Attapeu

Sanamxay district, Attapeu province: Authorities in charge are speeding up the construction of temporary houses to accommodate those made homeless by the flood that raged through here on July 23. Construction is expect to take 45 days after work began two weeks ago.More ...

Phomphong Laoin

Start of school year may be postponed in flooded areas: officials 

Some 13 schools and 55 teachers have been affected by the disastrous dam failure which unleashed a torrent of water and ravaged Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district on July 23. Of the 13 schools, one was swept away by the flood,More ...

Somsack Pongkhao

Committee announces cash donation for flood victims

The National Ad Hoc Committee says the government will give 500,000 kip to each family affected by the flood in Attapeu as emergency assistance in keeping with people’s needs.More ...

Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth

Provision of relief services must take place transparently, DPM stresses  

Sanamxay district, Attapeu province: The government is ratchetting up the provision of urgent relief and assistance to people left homeless after the recent flood caused by the failure of an auxiliary dam at the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower plant. The process of relief distribution and other assistance is ...

Bounfaeng Phaymanivong

Attapeu to spend 5.2 billion kip on emergency road repairs 

Attapeu province will spend 5.2 billion kip on emergency repairs to Road 18A, which runs from the provincial capital to Sanamxay district where a dam at the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower plant collapsed on July 23.More ...

Vientiane Times’ Reporter

Sanamxay flood’s impact immense, official figures still unavailable      

The extent of the losses and damage caused by flooding in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, is clearly vast, although a final assessment has not yet been made. More ...

Souksakhone Vaenkeo

Condolences continue to flow in from friendly countries 

Foreign leaders continued to express their sympathy to their Lao counterparts over the tragedy caused by the failure of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam.More ...

Vientiane Times’ Reporter

Shelter, clean food and hygienic toilets are priorities: PM   

Attapeu province: Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has told local authorities to focus on providing temporary shelters, food, health services and toilets, which he said were priorities for people made homeless after the flood in Sanamxay district.More ...

Bounfaeng Phaymanivong

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