Vientiane Times

Local viewers are in for clearer images following the handover of a high definition system upgrade for Lao National Television (LNTV) Channel 3 in Vientiane on Friday under a China aid programme. The 63 billion kip (52 million Chinese yuan) upgrade involved improving Channel 3’s standard ...

Lao lecturers and specialists from Malaysia’s University of Malaya gathered in Vientiane on Wednesday for a three-day meeting to share experiences in social research, aiming to build the capacity of trainers in this field.The “First Training of Trainers for Building Social Research Capacities in Higher ...

The Bank of the Lao PDR has imposed measures to help prevent the further depreciation of the kip against international currencies.According to a newsletter published by the central bank earlier this week, to prevent the kip sliding further against the US dollar and Thai baht, ...

Rural residents of Vientiane have a new Saemaul Community Centre following the handover of a building in Makhiew village, Pakngum district on Monday.The centre was built through cooperation between the Vientiane Agriculture and Forestry Department and the Saemaul Globalisation Foundation of South Korea.More ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States has agreed to support Laos with more than US$19.4 million to fund a comprehensive basic education programme to improve reading outcomes.The US Embassy to Laos formally launched the “Learn to Read” programme with the signing of two memorandums of understanding (MOUs) to ...

The Nippon Foundation of Japan has provided more than 2.6 billion kip (US$300,000) to the Ministry of Education and Sports to improve access to education for people with disabilities.A project agreement was signed in Vientiane on Wednesday by the Deputy Director of the External Relations ...

Huaphan provincial authorities are speeding up their search for six people missing after a landslide swept away two houses in Hindam village, Viengxay district on August 3.Seven people were reported missing. One body was found several days later and identified as being one of the ...