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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Representatives from enterprises involved in tea, spices, cardamom, and Indian prickly ash, community business-supporting organisations, and service providers attended a workshop to bolster their business opportunities and export markets through standardisation and certification.The workshop was held recently at the SME Promotion ...

A Singapore non-governmental organisation (NGO), Radion International, will support child protection and development in Laos.  A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the project was signed with Laos’ Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in Vientiane recently, according to the Singapore Embassy. More ...

(KPL) The government of Timor –Leste has donated US$ 750,000 to help flood victims in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province.The handover ceremony was held at the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in Vientiane on Mar 6 between the Timor Leste Ambassador to Laos, Ms Natália Carrascalão Antunes and the ...

The government of Japan will provide 850 million yen (about US$7.6 million) for Laos in support of activities to help communities around the country that were hit by floods last year.Heavy rain between July and September, including two tropical storms, resulted in widespread damage around ...

KHAMMUAN, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Jo Bounmy Group, a leading business conglomerate in Laos, has approved additional capital of US$500 million to build a trade and warehouse complex at the Thakhaek Specific Economic Zone (TSEZ) in Khammuan province.The company plans to build a trading complex ...

Schoolchildren in the capital and Xayaboury province will get extra help with reading thanks to funding support from Good Hands, an international development NGO based in the Republic of Korea.Hundreds of students and teachers in Xaythany and Sangthong districts in Vientiane and Kaenthao district in ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government is targeting modern production methods in the nation’s agricultural development strategy to help push forward its policy agenda on food security and reducing poverty in rural areas.Deputy Prime Minister Dr Sonexay Siphandone told those attending the Ministry of Agriculture ...

The French government has provided grant assistance of over 14 billion kip (EUR 1.5 million) to fund a tea value-chain project in Laos. The three-year project is aimed at improving the quality of life and earnings of small-scale tea producers and developing a regulatory structure for ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Widespread fake news and disinformation circulated on social media has threatened security and democracy and undermined social order, a workshop has heard.In his opening remarks at the event, Deputy Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr Savankhone Razmountry, told Lao and ...

(MENAFN) Cambodia penned a memorandum of understanding with Laos, joining hands in tackling drugs and cross-border crimes. Cambodian Interior Minister Sar Kheng signed the cooperation agreement Lao Public Security Minister Vilay Lakhamfong in Phnom Penh.More ...