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VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Sichuan AAA Public Development Co., Ltd. and ASIN Intl (Lao) Co., Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on business cooperation under the Belt and Road in Guang’an, Sichuan province, China.According to the Lao-China Economic and Trade Promotion Association (LCETPA), the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Business leadership development is one of the priority programmes aimed at making business operations in Laos stronger, successful and sustainable in order to contribute to socio-economic development.Administrative officials from the government, enterprises and the private sector yesterday attended a seminar in ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Despite budget constraints, disaster recovery remains a top priority for the government to sustain growth in the agriculture sector and alleviate poverty in local communities.Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Dr Bounkhuang Khambounheuang, told Vientiane Times this week that the government will allocate ...

The owner of a barber shop in Vientiane could be the first Lao woman to publicly declare competition with the growing number of foreign-owned hair stylists.Ms Saphavanh Chanthalack, who owns the Phontong barber shop in Chanthabouly district, displays a colourful banner at the front of ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Students from secondary schools and the National University of Laos met in Vientiane recently to learn about human trafficking, especially how to counter trafficking in persons under the rule of international law.The topic was discussed during the course of a Model ...

About 70 percent of survivors have returned to their villages a year after the catastrophic dam collapse last year in Attapeu, amid ongoing efforts to rehabilitate flood victims.The disaster occurred on the night of July 23, 2018, when water poured over a saddle dam at the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has revised the list of wood products approved for export so that Lao furniture makers can more easily sell their goods in local and overseas markets.The ministry has specified three main categories of wood product ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – A newly completed irrigation scheme is set to benefit more than 60,000 residents of Vientiane by supplying water to 1,542 hectares of farmland.The project was officially handed over yesterday by the developer to the Vientiane government in Dongkhuay village, Xaythany district.The ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Seven people are missing and two children were injured in the early hours of Saturday when a landslide struck in Viengxay district, Huaphan province, after more than two days of rain.District Governor Mr Phonsouk Inthavong told Vientiane Times yesterday that the landslide took ...

The National University of Laos in Vientiane will accept about 8,100 students to study across its 13 faculties in the coming academic year, after they pass the entrance exams.The exams took place at the university on Saturday, with the Deputy Minister of Education and Sports, ...