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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and China’s Guangdong province are aiming for a further increase in trade and investment volumes after their bilateral trade value was recorded at US$270 million last year, according to a senior Chinese official.In addition, five investment projects were launched in ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and Vietnam are strengthening investment cooperation including planning and management of both the government and private sectors as well as sharing lessons in economic development.These issues were covered at a meeting in Vientiane on Thursday which was co-chaired by Deputy ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao government has announced the temporary suspension of pig and pork product imports from China and Vietnam after African Swine Fever outbreaks in these countries.The notification was issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry recently with the aim of ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Vientiane is marking another first in its development with the organising of a book festival, hoping to persuade the town’s citizens and students about the importance of reading.The festival, which opened at the World Trade Center on Thursday, is drawing a ...

VIENTIANE, March 10 (Xinhua) — Bounnhang Vorachith, general secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee and president of Laos, inspected the Sun Paper Holdings Laos Co., Ltd. (Sun Paper Laos) on Sunday, hoping that the Chinese company will further help promote local economic ...

Three Lao workers trapped last week by a landslide while digging a passage to divert creek water to a nearby dam were found dead this week, with a fourth worker badly hurt, sources in the country say.The three men killed in the accident, which occurred ...

Vientiane authorities have frozen land sales and transfers in Dongdok village and surrounding areas after the National University of Laos filed a claim stating that it had the legal right to own and regulate the area.Director of the Vientiane Natural Resources and Environment Department, Mr ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and Cambodia have agreed on cooperative actions on the key priorities of a joint project on cross-border water resource development and management.Representatives of the two nations discussed plans recently at a Regional Steering Committee meeting, which identified eco-tourism and fisheries ...

The cabinet has instructed the Ministry of Finance and other state agencies to collect at least 20 percent of total revenue targeted for 2019 by the end of this month.Speaking at a press conference at the close of the February cabinet meeting, government spokesperson Dr ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and Thailand have committed to increasing bilateral trade volume by 10 to 15 percent annually as the two governments expect to meet the target of US$12 billion in 2021, according to the Lao trade minister.As part of promoting an increase ...