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.
Warning Images To Be Printed On Cigarette Packets By October
Smoking-borne-diseases will now be pictured on cigarette packets by 1 October, the Pathetlao Daily newspaper reported yesterday.
Rate Of Young Smokers Is On The Rise
The smoking rate of young people in Laos below 15 years of age is on the rise even though the Law on Tobacco Control has been implemented since 2009.
Germany Supports Vocational Teacher Training
The German government has agreed to provide grant assistance worth US$400,000 (more than 32 billion kip) under the Public Private Partnership Project (PPPP) focusing on enabling capacity building and teacher technology training for 2016-2017.