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Laos Prepares For ASEAN Para Games With 12-Sport Bid

Laos is preparing to compete in 12 sports at the 14th ASEAN Para Games in Kuala Lumpur next October. The Lao team has proposed entering athletics, swimming, powerlifting, boccia, women’s goalball, men’s blind football, women’s wheelchair basketball, cycling, badminton, wheelchair fencing, tennis and shooting, according to the Lao delegation attending...

Thailand Approves Loan for New Mekong Bridge in Luang Prabang

Thailand’s Cabinet approved financial assistance for the Lao government to construct the Xiengman-Luang Prabang...

Vientiane Court Hands Life Sentences to Former Bank Employees in Major Corruption Cases

A court in Vientiane gave life sentences to several former bank employees for corruption....

Laos, Singapore Look to Forests, Farms for Carbon Finance

Laos is moving to turn emissions reductions from forests, agriculture and other projects into...

Luang Prabang Economy Grows Despite Sharp Drop in Tourists

Luang Prabang’s economy grew 3.9 percent in the first half of 2026, even as...

Environmental and Social Monitoring Receives World Bank Support

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and its development partners organised a review of the Second Lao Environment and Social Project in 2016...

PM to launch railway construction in Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang province: -- Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith will officially launch the start of construction for the Laos-China railway project at a ceremony on...

NUOL Discusses Lifelong Learning Module for Teacher Education

The Faculty of Education at the National University of Laos (NUOL) is discussing and studying the possibility of integrating a lifelong learning module into...

Drug Traffickers Arrested in the Provinces

Phongsaly provincial police recently arrested a drug trafficker after finding more than 108,000 amphetamine pills, two kilogrammes of opium, an ingot of heroin, a...

Mortality Rate of Mothers and Infants Higher Than Previously Reported

Everyday, an average of 40 children are born in the country; but five of them will die because mothers and their babies do not...

Laos, EU Highlight 1st Anniversary of Paris Agreement

Lao government officials and members of the diplomatic corps from the EU Member States' embassies gathered on Monday to highlight the 1st Anniversary of...