Business

Chinese Commerce Chamber Urges Businesses in Laos to Cut Ties with Scam Networks

The General Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Laos has told its members to check their businesses, properties and services to make sure they do not help online scam networks operate. The chamber issued a notice warning companies that scam operations have harmed victims and damaged the reputation of Chinese businesses...

Laos Inflation Edges Up in July, Electricity Prices Surge 91.5% Year-on-Year

Electricity prices jumped 91.5 percent in July compared to the same month last year,...

Online Sellers Face Renewed Enforcement of Business Registration Rules

Online sellers in Vientiane must register as businesses and obtain an e-commerce licence or...

Former MRC Chief Anoulak Kittikhoun Named First Lao Head of Mekong Institute

Former Mekong River Commission (MRC) Chief Executive Officer Anoulak Kittikhoun has been appointed Executive...

Trade, Energy, Tourism Drive Laos-Vietnam Economic Ties Past USD 1.3 Billion

Trade between Laos and Vietnam reached USD 1.305 billion during the first six months...

Laos Clarifies Business Requirements for Vehicle Industry

Laos has promulgated a new prime ministerial decree clarifying the import and export of vehicles, dealerships, and assembly plants as different types of business. According...

Magic Lao Carpets

Carpets with a positive impact woven right in In a bustling workshop in the backstreets of inner-city Vientiane, agile fingers are hard at work and...

Japanese Firm to Import Lao-Lao Alcohol to Okinawa

Japan’s Okinawa-based Co-Op Okinawa is to import and sell Lao-Lao (Lao rice whisky) brand “Chura Lao” in Okinawa from as early as the beginning...

Japan’s Air Water Eyes Lao LPG Market via New Vietnam Unit

Japanese energy and chemical firm Air Water is to launch a Ho Chi Minh City-based unit through acquisition of major shares in a domestic...

Lao Securities Exchange to Close on Dec 27-Jan 1, 2020

The Lao Securities Exchange (LSX) has announced that it will be closed from December 27 to January 1, 2020, for last three business days...

Lao Stock Exchange Resumes Trading of PCD

Lao Securities Exchange (LSX) has announced that it resumed the stock trading of Phousy Construction and Development Public Company (PCD) as of November 29....