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(KPL) Traffic Police have reported 37 people were killed and over 532 injured during the celebration of Pi Mai Lao or Lao New Year B.E. 2562, between April 13 and 17, 2019.The number represented a 5 per cent decrease from the death toll reported during ...

UPDATED at 3.45 P.M. EDT on 2019-04-18Three U.S. citizens held in Laos since last week on suspicion of disseminating bibles and Christian material without government approval have been released and deported to neighboring Thailand on Thursday, their organization told RFA’s Lao Service.The volunteers for the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government is finalising a National Action Plan aiming to eliminate asbestos-related diseases among the population by putting an end to the import and use of the hazardous material across the country by 2020.Laos, like many other countries in the Asean ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Two international organisations plan to form a partnership to help Laos deliver better education outcomes in its remote border areas.The Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organisation (Seameo) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) held their technical working group meeting ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Asean-Korea Cooperation Fund supported a training programme on Electronic Business (E-Business) platforms to expand opportunities for women entrepreneurs, improve revenues and women’s well-being in the country.The opening ceremony of the programme was chaired by the Vice President of the Lao ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The agriculture sector is expected to expand by up to 3 percent this year, if Laos does not encounter any serious natural disaster like last year.According to the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2019 forecast, the agriculture sector is expected to expand ...

VIENTIANE PROVINCE, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Dansavanh Nam Ngum Resort has earned the reputation as being a place that only the wealthy and most powerful people in Laos go to, an exclusive resort for the cashed up high rollers, beautiful people and their flashy cars. ...

OUDOMXAY, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has asked Oudomxay provincial leaders to scrutinise private investment projects in detail so that economic growth in the northern province can be driven by high quality developments and programmes.The premier gave the advice on April 12 ...

Local communities impacted by flooding are benefiting under a ‘cash for work’ project as part of the collaboration between the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and the United Nations Development Programme.The project began in 2018 to support the most vulnerable families, most of whom ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Environment police and officials from the south of the country met recently in Champassak province for training in the enforcement of new laws which aim to combat the trade in illegal wildlife and other illegal forest activities.The two-day workshop took place ...