Vientiane Capital has fallen short of government goals to reduce school dropouts, with financial pressures and barriers to attendance keeping children out of classrooms, education authorities reported on 10 November.
The primary school dropout rate stood at 2.38 percent, compared with the government’s goal of keeping it below 0.4 percent....
The central bank of the Lao PDR is considering measures to address money-related problems including Kip depreciation and rising inflation.
According to the Lao News Agency...
The Lao-China railway has transported over 400,000 passengers in the past six months.
The railway has recorded about 410,000 passengers traveling on the train since...
The United Nations General Assembly convened the Plenary Meeting on the Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment yesterday on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declarations...