Giving guidance speech to the annual meeting of the Planning, Investment and Finance sectors on Dec 14, Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh urged the sectors to ensure their performance is strict and transparent, and address budget leaks.The annual meet…
The National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has approved an action plan on opening tourist destinations in the country to fully vaccinated visitors to ensure Covid-19 free tourism in the Lao PDR by January 2022.The Lao Travel
The first Laos-China international freight train loaded with spare parts, control panels, textiles and electronics officially left Chengdu, China heading to Vientiane, Laos.The train with 35 cars was loaded with nearly 350 tons of goods, all manufactur…
LaoSafe, a health and hygiene programme for the tourism and hospitality sector, has just received official approval from the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism (MICT), and will now be piloted in Vientiane.LaoS…
Looking beyond the current ‘take, make and dispose’ extractive industrial model, the circular economy is restorative and regenerative by design.Relying on system-wide innovation, it aims to redefine products and services to design waste out, while mini…
COVID-19 has resulted in widespread disruption to people’s lives. Particularly, it has disrupted children’s learning due to the closing of schools.Realizing the need and urgency to ‘keep girls in the picture’, UNDP Lao PDR and UNESCO, in partnership wi…
The current COVID-19 crisis has made it a real challenge for everyone to know how others are feeling, because our faces are mostly covered by masks.Masks make it difficult to understand what people are saying, even for people with no
U.S. Ambassador Peter M. Haymond handed over 93 containers of fortified rice, lentils, canned fish and fortified cooking oil to Deputy Minister of Education and Sports Sisouk Vongvichith at the World Food Programme’s (WFP) warehouse in Vientiane on Tu…
