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Health & Environment

Laos to Strengthen Road Safety During Lao New Year

Vientiane plans to deploy 1,172 traffic police officers across 143 stations in the country during the Lao New Year celebrations to ensure orderly, convenient, and safe road traffic from 11 to 17 April. These officers will enforce speed limits, conduct alcohol checks, prioritize traffic control, address illegally parked vehicles to...

Myanmar Earthquake Aftershocks Continue as Death Toll Approaches 3,000

As of 2 April, Myanmar and Thailand have recorded 264 aftershocks following the powerful...

Myanmar Earthquake Death Toll Tops 1,000, More Casualties Expected: Here’s What We Know So Far

This is a developing story LATEST UPDATE on 29 March at 12:48 PM The deadly 7.7-magnitude...

Severe Air Pollution Continues to Hit Laos

On 27 March, many parts of Laos were covered in a thick haze with...

ASEAN Unveils Guidelines for Agroecology Transitions

Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), in collaboration with key...

Why Laos Has Not Reported Any COVID-19 Cases

UPDATED: 23 March 2020, 9:58pm Laos, officially at least, remains free of the new coronavirus (now deemed by the international medical community as COVID-19). A...

Chinese National Carrying Coronavirus Travels Through Laos

A Chinese national who traveled through Laos has been confirmed to have been carrying the new Coronavirus. According to a document acquired by the Laotian...

Laos Steps Up Efforts to Prevent Coronavirus Outbreak

Laos has announced that it will set up a task force committee to tackle the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan,...

Ancient Meteorite Impact Crater Buried under Bolaven Volcanic Field, Laos

A group of researchers has concluded that Laos’s Bolaven volcanic field is likely to be the impact site of a meteorite that struck the...

Wat Sisaket Gets New Toilet Named After Korean City

The World Toilet Association and South Korea’s city of Suwon have joined hands and installed a new toilet in Wat Sisaket in Vientiane. The new...

Lao Communities Making a Difference in Ending AIDS by 2030

World AIDS Day marked on 1 December brings forward the discussion on ending the AIDS epidemic by achieving “zero” by 2030: Zero New Infections,...