Forest officials in Saravan province will continue encouraging villagers to hand in their illegal chainsaws with authorities suspecting that many are still concealed.
Foreign Minister Pays Courtesy Call to Thai Prime Minister
Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith on Wednesday paid a courtesy call to Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha in Bangkok on the occasion of his working visit to Thailand.
Work On Railway Construction Has Begun, Deputy Minister
Work has begun on the construction of the Laos-China railway project with technical development in land compensation taking place for the section between Phonhong and Vientiane.
ASEAN Pushes For Energy Security, Affordable Power
Laos has been working with its ASEAN colleagues to push for energy security and affordable power to promote industry growth and drive development, a senior Lao government official told local and foreign experts and editors this week.
Laos Victims of Unexploded Artillery Face Unintentional Consequences
One day in 2004, Houng Phommachak and two friends ventured out to the countryside near their village in northeastern Laos in search of scrap metal to sell, to supplement their families’ meager rice-farming incomes. They came across a piece of metal half-buried in the ground and set about digging it up.
The three friends recognized it as a piece of an old bomb casing, and assumed it was no longer dangerous. They were wrong.
The Role of the Lao Front for National Construction
The Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) has been promoting it role in society during celebrations in the lead up to its 66th anniversary on Saturday, August 13.
Laos’ Only Professional Cyclist Ready for Olympic Close-Up
Laos is not known for producing world-class athletes, let alone Olympian cyclists. In fact, the tiny Southeast Asian country known officially as the Lao People’s Democratic Republic never makes global sports headlines. It is a placid place of just under seven million squeezed on the map between far more populous and famous countries.