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The Lao Brewery Company has provided 500 million kip to the Ministry of Health to improve the nation’s health services in response to public demand. The ministry will use the funds to acquire modern medical equipment for dispensaries and district and provincial hospitals which will help ...

China has been offering Laos a special trading treatment, enabling Lao businesses to export their goods to one of the largest markets in the world.According to a report from the Lao Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Lao businesses can now sell their goods in the ...

(KPL) The Asian Development Bank – ADB – has provided a financial grant of 9 million US dollars to improve road access to Chom Ong Cave, one of many well-known attractions in Xay district, Oudomxay Province.One year of construction has passed, the upgrade of the ...

Improving the investment climate, and building a state governed by the rule of law will be the main focus of government activities in the first month of 2019.The government stressed the need for authorities in charge to coordinate with related sectors to study these problems, ...

The Rice Research Centre is accelerating efforts to improve the efficiency of the current rice breeding and testing programme for farmers’ use in response to climate change.  Dr Phetmanyseng explained that climate change directly affects rice production worldwide, including Laos, and causes national rice production to ...

Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has called on the Poverty Reduction Fund (PRF) to continue to help villagers rise above poverty after learning that a significant number of families remain impoverished.More ...

The Ministry of Finance, on behalf of the government, has officially announced its first trading of government bonds on the Lao Securities Exchange (LSX) in a bid to promote the capital market in Laos.More ...

Hundreds of people jointly raised 486 issues of public concern to the National Assembly via the telephone hotline operated during parliament’s 6th ordinary session, which ended last week. The poor state of roads, land disputes and the spreading drug trade were recorded as the top three ...

The Ministry of Planning and Investment has pledged to intensify action to speed up the consideration and approval of investment projects after learning that it typically took longer than the timeframe stipulated by law.In a document submitted to the National Assembly last week, the ministry ...

(KPL) The government of Japan has provided a grant worth US$ 292,195 to support income generation of people with disabilities in the Lao PDR. The grant extended at this time will fund activities in the first year of the two-year project.More ...