Government officials and partners will continue cooperation to improve the quality of tourism products on the Mekong River in Laos.A workshop to review tourism activities on the Mekong took place in Pakbaeng district, Oudomxay province, on December 17-18 with the support of the RELATED Project ...

The recently renovated That Luang stupa and Horphakeo will be the centre of attraction during religious events taking place throughout the ongoing That Luang Festival.An opening ceremony for the festival took place on Tuesday evening and was attended by senior government officials, the wives of the ...

Following Savannakhet’s declaration of Kaysone Phomvihane district as a city in May, the province is upgrading popular tourism sites in three districts in a bid to attract more visitors. The three sites earmarked for improvement are Dong Natad National Protected Area in Kaysone Phomvihane city, ...

 Roads at multiple locations across the country have been cut by landslides and may not be used for travel until repairs, authorities have warned. Motorists are warned to take care and pay extra attention and drive safely at a lower speed appropriate to conditions while ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith led a delegation to visit Myanmar on July 23-24 at the invitation of the Union Minister For International Cooperation, Mr U Kyaw Tin.More ...

A number of mega-projects currently being built in Laos should serve as facilities to accommodate the rising number of tourists from China. Some of the notable infrastructure projects include the construction of the expressway and the almost US$6 billion railway line that will link Vientiane ...

(Vientiane Times)-Farmers have urged the government to assist them in finding new markets – both local and overseas – to sell their produce.The requests were raised during the Lao Farmers Networking Knowledge Fair and General Assembly-2020 which was held over two days in Vientiane.Keep reading  ...

Bokeo provincial hospital in Laos and a major medical facility in Xishuangbanna province, China, have agreed to extend cooperation in sustainable medical practices in Laos-China border areas. Under the agreement, cooperation will aim at developing administration protocols, improving clinical standards and changing practices around service delivery ...

President of the Lao National Assembly, Ms Pany Yathotou, and her Thai counterpart Pornpech Wichitcholchai have said they highly value the growing ties and cooperation between the two countries, and the two parliaments in particular. More ...

Sanamxay district: The 500,000 kip cash handout promised to each of the families displaced by the flood in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, after a nearby dam burst last month, has not yet been received by all households. More ...

Laos and Cambodia have agreed on the basic principles in drafting a joint Terms of Reference (TOR) to speed up the resolution of the unsettled border area.This was the outcome of a meeting between the heads of the ministries of Foreign Affairs of Laos and ...

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 ...

Putting a new spin on a traditional art form isn’t a simple thing to achieve, but for niche fashion enterprise Artisan Designers (AND) an ambitious new branding campaign is seeing Cambodian handicrafts pushed in a new direction. Opening eight months ago on the tourist-friendly street 240, ...

Villagers who were evicted from their homes in northern Laos to make way for a new hydroelectric dam remain disenfranchised three years on, according to media reports. The villagers relocated from Xayaburi province in 2018 are housed in resettlement towns where they lack enough land and ...

A 44-year-old woman was run over and killed by a harvesting machine on Sunday while working on a sugarcane plantation in Kompong Speu province owned by CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat, marking at least the second death on the plantation since December. Y Mom, originally from ...

These photos document the construction of four dams – from north to south, Wunonglong, Lidi, Tuoba, and Huangdeng (see map below) – along a 200-kilometer stretch of the upper Mekong in Yunnan, China, and the transformation of the river from a free-flowing current to a ...

Apart from direct health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the crisis and measures to combat it have hit the economy hard. In Myanmar, as part of the Myanmar Business Environment Index (MBEI) project, The Asia Foundation conducted a survey of 750 businesses to see what ...

This tourist town counts itself among the Most Beautiful Bays in the World Club and more than 1 million tourists each year are drawn to its tropical water and sandy shore. Yet when the U.S. Embassy last month warned its citizens to avoid some beaches ...

On May 19, 2015, the European UniOn (EU) adopted a Joint CommunicatiOn: The EU and ASEAN: a partnership with a strategic purpose. The communicatiOn calls for taking “trade relatiOns with ASEAN to a different level and working towards an ambitious regiOn-to-regiOn free trade agreement (FTA) ...

Police in Kep province on Tuesday contacted authorities in Phnom Penh and all 23 other provinces in their attempt to identify a Caucasian man whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase floating in an inlet on Monday, but came no closer to solving the ...