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Turkey’s ambassador to Laos has indicated he is hopeful relations between Turkey and Laos can be further strengthened amid his country’s new Asia-focused foreign policy.Speaking to Anadolu Agency on 11 August, Ahmet Idem Akay said the trade volume between the two countries increased from USD ...

South Korean software developer Hancom has announced that it will support Laos to develop localized office software.Currently, Microsoft’s MS Word and MS Office, as well as Google’s Google Docs suite of office software are widely used in Laos.With a memorandum of understanding signed between Hancom and Laos’s ...

Indonesia’s state-owned Mandiri Bank has announced its intention to enter Laos and Cambodia.Rohan Nafas, Mandiri Bank corporate secretary, said the bank is now studying the best ways of penetrating the two new markets.More ...

About 70 percent of survivors have returned to their villages a year after the catastrophic dam collapse last year in Attapeu, amid ongoing efforts to rehabilitate flood victims.The disaster occurred on the night of July 23, 2018, when water poured over a saddle dam at the ...

The first freight train service to and from Laos was launched yesterday, with a shipment of Beerlao crossing the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge.Cargo from a container yard at Thanaleng Railway Station in Vientiane, Laos, can now be shipped by train as far as the Laem Chaban ...

Pangolins are the world’s most trafficked mammalDozens of live pangolins smuggled from Laos have been discovered “dehydrated and weak” in a box on a bus in Vietnam.The Vietnamese police arrested the driver and his wife on suspicion of trafficking the animals from Laos, AFP reported ...

The Refill not Landfill campaign hopes to solve the problem of single-use plastic waste in southern Laos.It is estimated that more than 100 million disposable plastic water bottles are consumed by travelers to Laos each year. Most of them are not recycled, and in many parts of ...

The number of tourists visiting Laos has increased 5 percent in the past six months thanks to a rise in the number of Chinese visitors.More than 2.2 million people visited Laos between January and June, according to Laos’s Tourism Development Department, Ministry of Information, Culture ...

A number of villages in Nan District, Luang Prabang Province have been hit by severe flash floods after torrential rain on Monday evening.A massive rainstorm has finally broken the severe drought that gripped the country for months, causing flash flooding in Luang Prabang.The Nan River ...

A new study has found that Malaria parasites resistant to essential drugs have spread to Laos and other parts of Southeast Asia.A group of researchers from the U.K. and Thailand analyzed samples from malaria patients across Southeast Asia and found that such parasites have moved from Cambodia ...