Infrastructure

Lao Airlines, the national flag carrier, has launched a weekly flight to Shanghai to serve the expected influx of Chinese tourists and other passengers during Visit Laos-China Year 2019.The inauguration took place on the occasion of the formal launch of Visit Laos-China Year in Vientiane.The ...

Air travelers between Oudomxay province and the nation’s capital Vientiane are set to remain grounded in the month of February as the runway of the aerodrome located in the provincial capital Muang Xay gets a much-needed upgrade.Lao Airlines has informed customers of a suspension to scheduled flights to and ...

Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and there is yet another reason to celebrate with flights to China’s glitzy and advanced economic metropolitan magnet Shanghai from the capital of Laos, Vientiane.Flights from Vientiane to Shanghai for $US199 + tax are expected to light up ...

Laos could serve as an internet cable connector within the region in the future thanks to its geographic location, an internet policy maker has said.“It is possible that Laos could be a regional internet land link,” Director General of the Lao Internet Centre, Mr Keovisouk ...

Construction of Thailand’s component of the regional high-speed rail network linked to China’s ambitious One Belt One Road plan is on the move again after years of delays hampered the progress of the high-profile project.A first 3.5km phase was the subject of a groundbreaking ceremony in December ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao Telecommunications Company, a leading comprehensive telecommunications operator in the country, has acquired VimpelCom Ltd for US$42 million.Customers of Beeline will be able to continue using network number 7 with the network of number 5 as of January.More ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Authorities have told villagers and organisations whose property stands in the path of the planned expressway in Vientiane to declare the assets they will lose and to submit a compensation claim by the end of this month.Xaysettha and Xaythany district authorities ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government will invest more funds to expand the Chinaimo water supply facility so that a sufficient amount of clean water is available to Vientiane residents. The project is now undergoing the final detailing after the government of Japan agreed to approve ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The budget arm of Singapore Airlines, Scoot, is ready to launch Singapore-Laos flights in April with tickets starting at US$88, it announced yesterday. Scoot will fly from Singapore to Vientiane to Luang Prabang on a circular route. It will depart from Singapore ...

The railway project that would link landlocked Laos with China has been touted as a benefit to the Lao economy because it will lower the cost of exports and consumer goods while boosting socioeconomic development in the impoverished nation of nearly 7 million people.But the ...