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Foreign media personnel welcome to register, report fatal flooding
Foreign media outlets and their personnel have sought to report the disastrous dam-failure-inflicted flooding from the ground in Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district. The interest comes as the rescue operation intensifies in the painstaking and exhausting search for any signs of those still missing. More ...
Somsack Pongkhao
Vaccination drive at Attapeu’s flood relief shelters gets a push
Health authorities have begun to provide vaccines against typhoid, cholera, tetanus and more to flood victims to prevent against the possible communicable disease outbreaks in flood-affected areas in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province. Some 2,979 cases of illness from dysentery, pneumonia, athlete’s foot and respiratory problems have ...
Xayxana Leukai
Reporting, sharing false reports on floods violates Lao laws committee warns
The reporting and sharing of false information in the form of fake news reports or altered still or video images concerning the flooding in Attapeu province and any other localities across the country violates Lao laws, the National Ad Hoc Committee in charge of dealing ...
Vientiane Times
Northern dam collapse rumour under investigation
Officials in Luang Prabang province said at 1pm Saturday they would track down the person responsible for spreading fake information about the possible collapse of the under construction Nam Ou 2 hydroelectric dam. The news spread very quickly on various social media applications, causing readers ...
Souknilundon Southivongnorath
Lao-Thai cooperation developing Mahasot’s hearing loss treatment
Mahosot Hospital is cooperating with experts from Asean countries including Thailand aiming to improve treatment for patients with hearing loss. This included cochlear surgery training for local medical personnel on Friday which was conducted by Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeon from Trang Hospital in ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Dengue fever claims 12 lives
Some 12 people have died following as a result of dengue fever in the first six months of this year, with Savannakhet province recording the most cases. The total numbers of dengue fever cases were over double the number of cases during the same period ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Exemplify leadership in rural development, PM tells Party members
Party members must lead the nation’s people in turning policy into action for rural development and poverty reduction, the Prime Minister told a meeting on the topic. Converting rhetoric into concrete implementation required all Party members to pull their full weight as a fine example to ...
Vientiane Times
Laos’ Human Rights Report Considered By UN Treaty-body
(KPL) The Lao PDR’s delegation headed by Mr. Bounkeut Sangsomsack, Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, Chairman of the National Steering Committee on Human Rights participated in the 123rd session of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva on 11-12 July 2018 for the consideration of ...
KPL
Prosperity of country, communities reliant on poverty reduction push: PM
Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has called for efforts to ensure poverty and least-developed status can be eradicated from the country’s rural areas, with the entire nation called upon to participate in the struggle.More ...
Vientiane Times
President, Lao Women’s Union mark 63rd anniversary
President Bounnhang Vorachit on Friday took part in special activities to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the Lao Women’s Union on theme ‘Cultures Conservation for Visit Laos Year and Sustainable Environment Protection’.More ...
Vientiane Times