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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Several provinces are suffering in the wake of prolonged downpours, with many houses, smallholdings and farms partially submerged under floodwater.Xekong province in particular has been affected and the level of the Nam Xekong river has risen to 12 metres, just below ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has decided to step in to administer government video conferences amid concerns over leaks of classified government information.Telecommunications minister Mr Thansamay Kommasith on August 12 signed a ministerial decision designed to establish rules and procedures ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – A meeting of the board of directors of the EDL Generation Public Company (EDL-Gen) last month did not approve the payout of a dividend as the company’s earnings over the first six months of 2019 showed a loss of 147.15 billion ...

A meeting of the Sector Working Group on Agriculture and Rural Development to discuss agricultural issues took place at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Vientiane on Tuesday. The meeting took stock of the significant implementation of sectorຊrelated actions under the working group, as well ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and Hungary will waive the visa requirement for each other’s diplomatic or service passport holders as of September 9, allowing passport holders from either country to stay in the host country for a period of 90 days without a visa.The ...

Lao nationals seeking employment in the Republic of Korea need to undertake language proficiency and labour skills tests, local authorities have stressed. Each year, Korea permits 500 Lao people to take up jobs in the country after passing a labour skills test, following the 2016 agreement ...

(KPL) The number of dengue cases in Laos has surged to 28,371 with 60 deaths reported since the beginning of 2019, the Ministry of Health has reported.As for infection, the number is five times higher than that reported in the same period last year where ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government has vowed to continue its efforts to improve public services, with many citizens calling for government officials to be more conscientious with regard to service delivery.According to a media release from the government’s Public Relations Department issued at the ...

More than 3,000 disadvantaged kindergarten and early primary school children in 27 villages of remote Nambak and Phonthong districts in Luang Prabang province are set to benefit from a school assistance project. The Luang Prabang provincial Education and Sports Department and Save the Children are cooperating ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Floodwater inundated many areas of Savannakhet and Khammuan provinces after tropical storm Podul blasted through over the weekend, leaving one person dead and damaging large swathes of rice crops.Flooding occurred in many parts of the country after the Meteorology and Hydrology ...