Government officials and international partners are reviewing the results of a development programme in Vientiane, Bokeo, Borikhamxay and Khammuan provinces, after one year of implementation. A meeting is taking place from June 20-21 to review and report on the progress and challenges of the project, ...

State authorities have warned the nation’s many regions to closely follow weather forecasts and to be alert to flash flooding caused by the heavy rainfalls that began yesterday. Some parts of Vientiane and the provinces of Huaphan, Xieng Khuang, Luang Prabang, Xayaboury, Xaysomboun, Borikhamxay, Khammuan, Savannakhet, ...

The responsibilities of provincial assemblies in approving budget plans and granting rights to provincial administrations to use money they have collected in excess of the target plan has raised concerns among some National Assembly members. The concerns were raised by National Assembly members on 16 December when ...

The value of stocks traded on the Lao Securities Exchange saw rapid growth last year, according to a report from the Bank of the Lao PDR. The central bank released its annual report recently, providing an overview of the economic development of Laos last year ...

Vientiane authorities are aiming to grow the capital’s economy by 11 percent this year and expect that GDP will increase by 41.6 trillion kip. ​It is also anticipated that the capital’s residents will have an annual average per capita income of US$5,000.​ The agriculture and ...

On 21 September 2016, the Government of Japan has agreed to provide US$833,332 to Japan Mine ActiOn Service (JMAS), under the framework of the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects. The Grant COntract was signed today at the Embassy of Japan between H.E. Mr. KUMAMARU ...

Banteay Chhmar Community-Based Tourism project is a group of local villagers from the Banteay Chhmar community dedicated to preserving and protecting the cultural heritage of their local temple site. Khiri Travel is aiming to create a responsible tourism industry in the town of Banteay Chhmar. The CBT ...

An aggressive marketing campaign for a New Zealand brand of breast milk substitute – including giveaways to New parents in a hospital – has been condemned as “appalling” and “completely illegal” by a body that monitors Cambodia’s strict rules on the marketing of formula milk. ...

After a decades-long blanket ban on tourists, Kayah State in eastern Myanmar has opened up to the outside world. Travellers are pouring in to get a glimpse of its untouched beauty. As Pichayada Promchertchoo reports, the remote state is hoping to develop a tourist industry without losing ...

Nearly 70 representatives from 278 families in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district are seeking intervention after a national mining company began drilling on their farmland last week, locals said yesterday. According to villager Yean Bunchan, 47, representatives from a company based in Kandal province called T P ...

The governments of Laos and Vietnam marked the completion of the border demarcation and maintenance of border markers project at a ceremony held on 16 March in Hanoi, Vietnam. Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong led a high-level Lao delegation at the event, according to a press release from ...

Leaders from the six countries along the Lancang-Mekong River agreed on 23 March in China’s Hainan province to join forces to build a peaceful and prosperous community, the Lao Ministry of foreign Affairs has said, and has reached the agreement at the first Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Leaders’ Meeting ...

Bokeo provincial police confiscated over 100,000 amphetamine pills and arrested two drug traffickers in Phonthong village, Paktha district, last week. Head of the Bokeo provincial Public Security Headquarters, Colonel Lamphai Yotpaphai, told Vientiane Times on 11 November that police received a tip off about illegal drugs being ...

The National Assembly (NA) not only plays the role of decision-maker on fundamental issues affecting the country but is also tasked to oversee the government’s performance. Some 17 national projects proposed by government sectors have been approved by the Assembly’s Standing Committee over the past six ...

Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith yesterday advised labour and social welfare authorities to carry out the country’s labour skill development policy to meet the needs of the job market.He made the comment at the national labour and social welfare sector meeting which took place on Tuesday ...

The Mekong River rose rapidly overnight on Saturday and Vientiane residents woke up to see the newly built Nakharath City shopping centre partially submerged. The owners of the 300 stalls it contains were astonished to find that the river had claimed the site and hurriedly ...

Representatives from development partners and line departments of the Ministry of Science and Technology met last week in the capital to increase understanding about smart province development. Smart province development is a community strategy centred on systems using science and technology, including environmental conservation, information and ...

The e-commerce market in Laos is set to take off amidst the rapid growth of internet penetration in the region but the country still does not have laws to regulate such activities, experts have noted. This has resulted in Laos losing out on the benefits ...

Classes at schools throughout Huaphan province will be suspended as temperatures sink to as low as 0-1C in the morning and teachers and children shiver.The province’s Education and Sports Department on Monday announced that all classes at kindergarten, primary and secondary schools would be suspended ...

Amid concern over the impact on Thailand’s export growth of so-called “Trumponomics” under the new US president and the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote, Thai trade officers from 63 posts in 47 countries will attend a meeting in Bangkok on February 22 that has been called ...