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....
Laos has recorded 400 cases of Covid-19 across the country today, with five new deaths attributed to the coronavirus.
The National Taskforce for Covid-19 Prevention...
A fire that broke out at the Vientiane Capital landfill site last weekend has finally been extinguished.
The fire raged for five days, burning across...
Chinese workers staged a protest at the Sino-Agri Potash Company in Khammouane Province on Sunday after working without pay.
Some 35 laborers, all Chinese nationals,...
Hundreds of thousands of laborers from Laos and Cambodia have begun returning to Thailand as the country opens its doors to migrant workers.
Thailand requires...
Laos has recorded 463 cases of Covid-19 across the country today, with two deaths.
The National Taskforce for Covid-19 Prevention and Control reported that 3,279...
