VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – A foreign company will build a solar power farm on 54.2 hectares of land in the Thakhaek Specific Economic Zone (SEZ) in Khammuan province.A project development agreement was signed between the Executive Board of the Thakhaek Specific Economic Zone and Hainan ...

The Cabinet on Tuesday (Dec, 18) approved two digital laws concerning the prevention of cybercrime and the use of personal information without consent. Minister of Digital Economy and Society’s Pichet Durongkaveroj said today the two laws include the cybersecurity draft act which can prevent or ...

Nearly half of Thailand’s citizens aged 18-65 are spending everything they earn on monthly bills and living expenses, leaving them with nothing to put aside as savings. A study carried out by GoBear, an international financial comparison site, reveals that the highest percentage of people ...

A conference was held in Hanoi on July 5 to discuss the role of the youth in the implementation of sustainable development goals in Vietnam. A survey released by ActionAid Vietnam and partners showed that nearly 57% the of youngsters held that a lack of ...

The government should continue to prioritise tourism and involve all ministries and local administrations in the promotion of tourism to drive growth, a minister has advised.Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Prof. Dr Bosengkham Vongdara made the recommendation at an official ceremony held at the ...

(KPL) The Hongsa Power Company Limited (HPC) has received the International Environmental Management Standard (ISO 14001: 2015).“Hongsa Power has complied strictly with the obligations it has signed with the Lao government and it will do its utmost to be a good neighbor to local communities,“ ...

After months of questioning the husband following initial suspicions, the police managed to arrest the couple red-handed and seized four baby tigers from them that were allegedly trafficked from Laos. The Thai police had been investigating the husband since September, and authorities eventually arrested him ...

(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 ...

With average monthly income of VND5.5 million (US$261), nearly half of workers in Vietnam felt that their income was enough to cover basic living expenses, according to a recent wage survey. The survey on wage, income and life quality of workers in 2018 was released yesterday ...

Last week, the countries of the Mekong subregion kicked off another iteration of a key friendship border exchange program in Vietnam. Though the event was just one among many developments within the management of border relations between these countries, its significance nonetheless bears noting within ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone has donated 3 billion kip to the government to assist flood victims in the central and southern provinces of Laos.The amount was presented on Tuesday by the Chairman of the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, ...

The National Assembly of Cambodia on 4 April passed a contentious trade union law, just hours after a group of pro-union demonstrators and Daun Penh district security guards clashed violently outside.“They did not explain clearly what their intentions [were to retain articles in the law],” ...

Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said on Wednesday that the six Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) countries are proud to work together to build a community of shared future. “Cambodia, like the other 5 LMC countries, takes great pride in being able to build together this Community ...

Hà Nội witnessed severe air pollution exceeding air quality guidelines of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on nine out of every 10 days in the first three months of 2018.This was revealed in the latest report of Hà Nội-based Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) ...

Angry villagers, government officials, MPs, experts, and national and international NGOs came together to denounce the troubled Myitsone dam project in Kachin State. Convened by the Myanmar Green Network, last week they spoke out in a bid to influence the commission set up by the ...

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications will rely on market mechanisms to decide whether the country will launch a 5G service, according to a ministry official.The ministry’s E-Government Centre Director General, Dr Thavisak Manotham, told Vientiane Times last week that the ministry had no policy ...

Over the last two years, Savannakhet authorities has discovered a number of illegal logging cases which infringed the laws and regulations on governance of timbers and logging entrepreneurship. Provincial forest inspection authorities have investigated 279 cases violating Lao forestry Law and Wildlife and Aquatic Law ...

Health officials in Bangkok have met to discuss the situation in regard to HIV/AIDS in the capital city. The meeting, chaired by Deputy Governor of Bangkok Thaweesak Lertprapan, was held at the Asia Hotel in Ratchathewi district. Topics on the agenda included the role of the ...

Trade development of the Cambodia-Laos-Việt Nam (CLV) Development Triangle Area remains modest and unsynchronised, failing to match the potential and the strategic co-operation between the three countries, participants were told at the 11th Trade and Tourism Promotion Forum of the CLV Development Triangle Area held ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The US-China trade war has yet to impact upon trade between Laos and China, a Chinese diplomat has confirmed.Speaking to Lao media in Vientiane on Thursday, Chinese Ambassador to Laos Jiang Zaidong said the trade cooperation between the two countries continued ...