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Disasters claim 108 lives, cause 466 trillion kip losses in eight years
Various disasters have claimed 108 lives and caused more than 466 trillion kip in infrastructure losses and property damage across the country from 2010 to date, a new report has revealed. The disasters recorded in Laos included storms, storm-caused flooding, drought, fires, disease outbreaks and insect ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
Environment project spreads forest preservation message
The Human Resources Development for Protected Area and Wildlife Management Project has been successful in studying these areas and monitoring the wildlife they contain. This year the project has produced some textbooks for use by students taking bachelor degree courses at the Faculty of Forestry, ...
Sangkhomsay Bubphanouvong
Three injured people die, bringing Sanamxay flood death toll to 34
Three people who were seriously injured when a flash flood hit Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, have died in hospital, bringing the death toll from the disaster to 34 as of August 5.More ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
Poverty rate may increase in the wake of flooding
The number of poor families could be revised up this year in the wake of flooding that has ravaged many parts of Laos, claiming many lives and a huge amount of property. Thousands of people who were previously lifted above the poverty line could be re-classified ...
Somsack Pongkhao
New ambassadors appointed to overseas missions
President Bounnhang Vorachit on Friday appointed two new Lao ambassadors to head the diplomatic missions in Cambodia and Germany.More ...
Times Reporters
Start of school year may be postponed in flooded areas: officials
Some 13 schools and 55 teachers have been affected by the disastrous dam failure which unleashed a torrent of water and ravaged Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district on July 23. Of the 13 schools, one was swept away by the flood,More ...
Somsack Pongkhao
Committee announces cash donation for flood victims
The National Ad Hoc Committee says the government will give 500,000 kip to each family affected by the flood in Attapeu as emergency assistance in keeping with people’s needs.More ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Compensation considered for aid worker killed in flood relief mission
Authorities in charge are mulling the appropriate social welfare policy to compensate the family of an aid worker killed in an accident during the ongoing flood relief effort in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province.More ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
Authorities told to rebuild livelihoods of flood-stricken villagers
Rebuilding the livelihoods of flood-affected villagers, particularly evacuated families, should be a top priority, Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith told Khammuan and Savannakhet provincial authorities last week.More ...
Somsack Pongkhao
Energy ministry to join investigation into dam failure
The Ministry of Energy and Mines is ready to join with all stakeholders in a government mission to investigate the cause of the damage to saddle dam D at the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower project, which resulted in serious flooding and destruction in Sanamxay district, Attapeu ...
Vientiane Times’ reporter
