Lao Airlines’ earnings plummeted by 70 percent last year compared to 2019 as result of a sharp drop in passenger numbers due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The figure was reported at a recent meeting of the airline’s sales representatives and related parties. The meeting was held ...

Tropical storm Barijat is forecast to affect the north and central regions of Laos and everyone should be on the alert for heavy rain and winds due to storm activity from September 12-18.More ...

Sesan dam holdouts from Kbal Romeas and Srekor villages have gone on the offensive, demanding compensation for destroyed rice fields and new homes on their ancestral land. Both villages were flooded following the inauguration of the China-backed Lower Sesan II Dam in September. While some accepted ...

The Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research is ready to continue assisting people’s tree plantings in northern Luang Prabang province and will also extend support to the wood processing sector in Laos. The extension in support comes after the ACIAR project achieved success in the ...

Only certain species of trees grown in managed plantatiOns may be exported, not all species, the government spokesman said last week. Eucalyptus and kathinnalOng trees whose trunks measure 12 centimetres or less may be felled for export but trees with larger trunks must not be used ...

Vietnam’s Central Highlands provinces are battling a fast-spreading diphtheria outbreak, with 15 new cases recorded in the last two days. In just over a month, diphtheria has struck four provinces in the region with 93 infections in total and three deaths.Low vaccination rates have been ...

Members of a community in Battambang where an unlicensed doctor allegedly infected more than 200 people with HIV earlier this year have demanded free general healthcare, a provision usually reserved only for the country’s most poor. ...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday appointed incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen as the prime minister for the new five-year-term government after his ruling party won the July 28 election, according to a royal decree. “The Prime Minister of Cambodia has duties to prepare the members ...

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Visiting traditional weaving villages and caves, exploring nature, looking at old wooden houses and enjoying the view from the top of Phouphadeng hill are some of the delights in store for tourists when they visit Nambak and Ngoy districts in Luang Prabang province.More  ...

Some 50 health officials from the central and southern provinces met in Vientiane to build consensus on the national health research agenda, which will form the basis of government policy in this field. The consultative meeting on the preliminary results of the national health research ...

Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith told the National Assembly on Friday that Laos is unable to graduate from the United Nations’ Least Developed Country (LDC) list by 2020 as targeted. The premier was responding to questions raised by members of parliament at the ongoing 5th ordinary ...

The water in the Mekong River is currently above the danger level in Champassak province and has flooded some parts of Pakxe, while in Khammuan province the river has almost reached the danger mark. But in Khammuan it is the Xebangfai River that has overflowed ...

The country’s first digital forensics laboratory opened on Friday at the General Police Department of the Ministry of Public Security.The opening ceremony was attended by members of the police force and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Global Programme on Cybercrime.More ...

The German government has provided more than 9.3 billion kip (EUR 950,000) through the German Red Cross to strengthen the blood donation project in target provinces of Laos, as well as to improve aspects of blood processing and supply.More ...

People living in remote areas of Borikhamxay province have asked for better roads but the government has not been able to meet their needs because of chronic budget constraints.Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith addressed the matter on Friday when meeting Borikhamxay’s leaders, core officials, and local ...

Laos and Cambodia have agreed to work together to resolve the issue of their disputed border area as the two countries’ foreign ministers met for talks in Vientiane yesterday. Minister of foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia, Prak Sokhonn, was in Laos on a ...

Sanamxay district, Attapeu province: Some 149 people who were injured when the flood raged through this area have received treatment at the district hospital, while 72 people with more serious injuries were taken to Attapeu provincial hospital.More ...

Health workers in Feuang district, Vientiane province, are turning to social media to help them in their daily work. Head of Feuang district Health Office, Dr Inpone Maniseng, told Vientiane Times that most staff and village health volunteers are using mobile phones to create a network for ...

Authorities submitted a request for the Vientiane People’s Council to consider measures to resolve the status of the Nongchan Bus Station project in central Vientiane where construction has stopped. The project plans to upgrade the existing bus station into a modern facility involving a six-storey ...