PTT Plc, the national oil and gas conglomerate, says it is in the process of separating its gas balance sheet from PTT to spin off the business. President and chief executive Tevin Vongvanich said this is part of a plan to compete in the gas industry ...

Workers’ wages won’t stretch very far this year amid a protracted economic slowdown that will hit pockets hard, say experts and labour leaders.“Save wages to pay off debts and work overtime to make ends meet”, is advice that sums up the outlook for workers this ...

The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi announces the 2019 – 2020 Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Short-term Program. The Fulbright Program will fund international travel costs and daily honorarium for the U.S. educator. The Vietnamese host institution will provide the U.S. educator with arrival and departure support, ...

Conservation experts and residents in Cambodia’s Kratie province say they are concerned for the wellbeing of the Mekong River dolphin, especially if a major hydropower project is built upstream. Laos says it intends to go forward with the Don Sahong Dam project, despite opposition from Cambodia ...

The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved the construction of 25 bridges with the second transport sector loan for the national road network improvement project. The bridges’ total investment is about VND1.686 trillion ($75 million), funded by the Japan International Co-operation Agency ODA loans. Keep reading ...

Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said the spirit of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) is the driving Force in building a peaceful and prosperous community. During the first “Lancang-Mekong Week” (March 19-25), Prak Sokhonn told Xinhua in a joint interview that the Phnom Penh Declaration and ...

By using proper software, forest management boards have been able to track the performance and progress of their staff in forest protection tasks.More importantly, the images taken by forest rangers at different locations in the assigned forest areas help the forest managers have a more ...

The U.S. has overtaken Laos to become the most attractive place for Vietnamese foreign investment in the first nine months of this year, according to the foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment. The North American country attracted $101.4 million out of ...

A research team from Mahidol University has estimated that the government’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign over the past two years prevented nearly 490,000 deaths.The team based their work on a mathematic modelling carried out by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis in 185 countries ...

A cold snap is set to hit most of Laos this week as the result of a high-pressure system over the northern and central parts of the country.According to the Meteorology and Hydrology Department, the forecast for November 7-10 will see cooler temperatures in northern ...

Currently, the Vientiane Education and Sports Office  is collecting the data of schools offering online teaching and learning through communication apps (Zoom) and those providing onsite teaching and learning. “online teaching cannot deliver as good schooling results as onsite teaching technique and this is partly attributed ...

Minister of Health, Assoc. Prof. Dr Bounkong Syhavong, highlighted the significant successes of the nation’s health sector in his report to the cabinet’s monthly meeting for November.A majority of the population now have access to better quality treatment with the ministry expanding health services in ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government has called upon the private sector to cooperate with the public sector to enable the country to create a friendly business environment and promote ease of doing business.Unnecessary hurdles are being gradually eliminated, but it is believed that it ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao government is urging farmers to embrace the commercial farming of organic crops and to develop product systems so they can compete more effectively in international markets.That’s the message at the 7th Lao Organic Agriculture Forum (LOAF) under the theme: ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The inspection of hydropower projects is at the top of the agenda for the Lao government to ensure the safety of all dams, a senior official has confirmed.Minister of Energy and Mines, Dr Khammany Inthirath, told local media recently the government ...

If there were no hydroelectric dams, floods would still occur, even at a higher level. In many cases, without hydropower reservoirs, floods would be more serious.VietNamNet introduces an article by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Thanh Ca, lecturer at the Hanoi University of Natural Resources and ...

Sayabouly province, in Laos, expects to attract almost 200,000 visitors next year contributing more than USD6 million to the province’s economy. Lao News Agency reported the province’s Information, Culture and Tourism Department saying it will improve the night market in Sayabouly district and encourage restaurants to feature more ...

Companies acquired concessions amounting to the size of a small European country, while rural residents of Southeast Asia’s Mekong region saw their landholdings shrink or disappear over the past two decades, according to researchers. More than 5.1 million hectares of land – an area larger than ...

The Greater Mekong Subregion is one of the fast-growing markets for air transport services today.[] Bangkok is still the busiest aviation hub in the subregion, followed by Kunming, said the report. It notes that more airports are being connected to international destinations because of Open ...

Yangon based fin­tech company ThitsaWorks has launched data manage­ment solutions for small and medium microfi­nance institutions (MFIs), as it seeks to take their op­erations out of notebooks and onto screens.The firm hopes that through its cloud and data centre services, mi­crofinance organisations will become more ...