KPL-Lao News Agency

Namha ASEAN Heritage Park Promotes Bamboo VCD Along Buffer Zone

(KPL) Bamboo is an important non-timber forest product (NTFP) in the context of the livelihood of the poor in the Lao PDR. Next to self-sustaining purpose (home consumption shoots, construction material) it has an additional economic value.More ...

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Substandard Dam Causes Collapse, Energy Minister

(KPL) Minister of Energy and Mines Khammany Inthirath told a press conference in Vientiane on Thursday that the collapse of Saddle Dam D of the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower project on Jul 23 was caused by substandard construction. The dam collapsed at 20.00 hours on Monday, ...

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Governments Extend Aid To Flood Victims In Laos

(KPL) The governments of many countries have extended and promised to extend relief aid for flood victims in Attapeu, a southern province of Laos.More ...

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BCEL One Heart Makes Donation For Flood Victims Easier

(KPL) Banque Pour Le Commerce Exterieur Lao Public, mostly known as BCEL, has launched a corporate social responsibility project called BCEL One Heart to raise funds for flood victims in Attapeu and other charity purposes.More ...

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Malaysia Helps Improve Lao Technical Officials

(KPL) More than 2,000 Lao officials have benefited from various programmes conducted since 1980 under the Malaysia Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP).More ...

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PM Suspens Monthly Meeting, Leads Ministers To Flooded Sanamxay

(KPL) Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has suspended the planned monthly meeting of the government for August and led his cabinet members and other senior officials to Sanamxay to monitor rescue and relief efforts being made for flood victims. The collapse of the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower ...

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Vientiane Highway Compensation Estimated To Be At Least US$ 40 Million

(KPL) The compensation for the losses of people’s property and houses to pave the way for the development of the Vientiane Highway running parallel to the Kaysone Phomvihane Road has been estimated to be at least 40 million US dollars.More ...

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Laos’ Human Rights Report Considered By UN Treaty-body

(KPL) The Lao PDR’s delegation headed by Mr. Bounkeut Sangsomsack, Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, Chairman of the National Steering Committee on Human Rights participated in the 123rd session of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva on 11-12 July 2018 for the consideration of ...

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First-In-Laos Pulp Manufacturer Launches Trial Operation

(KPL) Sun Paper Holding Laos, the first pulp manufacturer in the Lao PDR, has launched three-month trial operation following ten years of conducting feasibility study, farming eucalyptus and building a pulp factory. Our company has invested 432 million US dollars in building this pulp factory ...

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Laos, Development Partners To Review Development Progress By November End

(KPL)  The Annual Round Table Meeting for the Mid-Term Review of the Implementation of the 8thNational Socio-Economic Development Plan and progress in sustainable development and effective development cooperation will take place in Vientiane at the end of November 2018.More ...

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