The Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL) is intensifying efforts to tackle corruption and internal mismanagement after inspection teams uncovered 181 cases of embezzlement and misappropriation between 2021 and 2025, resulting in losses of LAK 66.86 billion (USD 3 million).
Alarmingly, only 22.96 percent of these funds have been recovered,...
A Korean school group has become the first group of tourists to arrive in Laos since the country's reopening this year.
Vientiane Times reports that...
Laos has earned over USD 900 million from the export of agricultural products in 2021, according to a recent government report.
Exports of bananas brought...
Construction of Latsavong Plaza, the tallest building in Vientiane, is to resume after the project was stalled for five years.
According to Director-General of the...