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Xayaboury authorities are wondering how to accommodate the 500 or so Chinese visitors who will attend the elephant festival in the provincial capital this week and next.The popular annual event always sees guesthouses fully booked as people from around Laos flock to Xayaboury for the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Attapeu province authorities have vowed ongoing support to meet the daily needs of people who were made homeless after the dam collapse along with frequent consultation to assess their requirements.The province’s Deputy Governor, Mr Ounlar Xayyasith, said yesterday they plan to ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Saysettha Development Zone (SDZ) in Vientiane will encourage more companies to invest in the complex, which now needs thousands of workers for the companies already present.“The zone will encourage more than 20 companies to invest in the SDZ by next ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Savannakhet province has been busy organising its annual One District, One Product (ODOP) fair which aims to promote local products for both national and international markets.This second ODOP fair has been organised by the SME and the Trade Promotion Division under ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – A large number of Phouthai people from across Laos gathered in Vientiane last week to celebrate the start of their Lunar New Year.The celebrations served to make city dwellers more aware of the customs of this ethnic group, who put on ...

Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has told ministries to be proactive in attracting investment from Brunei Darussalam after learning that companies in the oil-rich country want to do business in Laos.Bruneian investors are interested in exporting oil to Laos as well as operating poultry farms and ...

The new Xekoumkam and Xethamuak bridges along National Road No. 9 in Savannakhet province are approaching 80 percent completion with the official in charge expecting to hand over the projects in May.“Construction of the two bridges is now 77.49 percent complete. We expect the work ...

Residents of Sangsai village in Pakngum district, Vientiane, have raised the chronic problems they face with representatives of the National Assembly (NA) and Vientiane People’s Council.Elected officials met local residents yesterday as part of a tour of all 13 villages in Pakngum district from February ...

(KPL) Feb 12 witnessed the handover of the newly renovated Xepon Ethnic Secondary School from the International WeloveU Foundation to the management of the school in Xepon district, Savannakhet Province.The renovation was made to bathrooms, school meeting hall, school building, and boredwell, said Ms Kim ...

As a transit country, Thailand should play a significant role in helping the neighbouring landlocked country of Laos improve their economic growth to achieve the goals of the 10-year-Vienna Programme of Action (VPoA) for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024, according to the programme’s ...