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Laos Adopts Five-Year Plan to Protect Migrant Workers

Laos has approved a five-year migration plan aimed at protecting workers’ rights, improving access to decent jobs, and expanding social protection for people moving across its borders. The framework, endorsed in Vientiane Capital on 10 November, covers people entering, leaving, and passing through Laos. It aims to improve migration management...

Thousands of Students Leave School Before Graduation in Vientiane

Vientiane Capital has fallen short of government goals to reduce school dropouts, with financial...

Thai Airways Reports Breach Involving Over 60,000 Passenger Records

Thai Airways is investigating unauthorized access to passenger booking information held by its service...

Vientiane Forecasts Faster Economic Growth This Year

Vientiane Capital expects its economy to grow by 7.6 percent this year, falling short...

Thailand Plans to Extend Work Permits for Lao, Myanmar Migrant Workers

Thailand is planning to extend work permits for more than 2.3 million migrant workers...

Husband Kills Wife in Luang Nam Tha Shooting

A 56-year-old husband shot and killed his wife at an up-land rice field hut in Kuisoung Village, Lae District, Luang Nam Tha Province, on 29...

India Seeks Expansion of Highway To Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam 

India is now looking to expand the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway to Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, in order to increase connectivity of the region.  ASEAN Briefing...

Over 18,000 Dengue Fever Cases in Laos

Dengue fever infections across Laos have reached 18,043 cases since January, including 17 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health. The Center of Information and...

Vietnam Orders Tech Firms to Store User Data Locally

Vietnam has ordered tech firms to store user data locally and establish local offices in a new move to tighten cybersecurity regulations. Reuters reports that...

A Boom of New Lao Businesses

Over 7,640 new businesses registered to operate in Laos over the last six months, representing a 14.5 percent increase over the same period last...

Looted Khmer Artifacts Hidden from Magazine Photos

Photographs of "America's most beautiful home" in the magazine Architectural Digest are suspected to have been altered to remove the appearance of looted ancient...