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Russia rewards National Assembly President
The government of the Russian Federation has awarded the President of the Lao National Assembly Ms Pany Yathotou with an Order of Friendship for her great contribution to the development of cooperation between Laos and Russia. The award ceremony took place yesterday at the Russian Embassy ...
K30b request to boost Yangon power approved
A request of K30 billion from the special reserved fund, granted by Budget Law of the Union 2016, to be spent for supplying the electricity power shortage in Yangon Region during the summer season was approved by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on March 17 amidst complaints ...
CLMV parliaments share public investment experiences
The parliaments of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Viet Nam shared experiences in monitoring and managing State budget and public investment during a conference in Phnom Penh on Monday. Addressing delegates at the launch of the conference, Cambodian National Assembly leader Heng Samrin said the event ...
Vietnam, Laos discuss decentralisation
Vietnamese and Lao legislators shared experience in management decentralisation from central to grassroots levels during a workshop held in Hanoi on Tuesday. Lao National Assembly President Pany Yathoutou and Vietnam National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Tòng Thi Phóng co-chaired the event, which demonstrated the role and ...
Laos, Vietnam NA agree to deepen cooperation
Lao and Vietnamese top legislators have agreed to deepen cooperation between the two countries’ National Assemblies as Lao NA president, Ms Pany Yathotou made an official goodwill visit to Vietnam. The six-day visit by Ms Pany was made at the invitation from her Vietnamese counterpart, ...
No surrogacy law likely until after 2018 election: official
A much-needed new surrogacy law might take more than a year to be adopted, an official at the General Secretariat of the National Committee for Counter Trafficking said on March 2 on the sidelines of a stakeholder conference. A senior official, who spoke on condition of ...
Failures at assembly pile up
National Assembly effectiveness declined last year with prosecutions of opposition lawmakers, partisan passing of laws and many assembly members visiting constituents only to shore up their vote, an election watchdog claimed on February 21. A Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia report on ...
Political parties law moves ahead
Ruling party members on the National Assembly’s Permanent Committee approved several proposed amendments to the law on political parties on February 13 despite strong requests for a delay from the opposition. The bill will now be reviewed and studied by the commission of legislation and ...
New law would reprieve political offenders
The National Legislative Assembly plans to propose a draft law to the government offering a penalty reprieved for those who committed politically-motivated criminal offences as part of the unity-building process. NLA vice- president Pirasak Porcit said the 33 section bill is being reviewed by the ...
NEC ends complaint review
The National Election Committee on January 26 said it had wrapped its 11-day review of complaints alleging that foreigners had registered for the provisional voter list, finding just two of the 142 suits of complaints worthy of further investigation. The 142 separate complaints raised questions about ...