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Foreign Ministers Discuss Ways to Fully Implement APSC Blueprint 2025

ASEAN Foreign ministers yesterday discussed ways and means to ensure the full and effective implementation of the ASEAN Political-Security Community Council (APSC) Blueprint 2025 adopted by the ASEAN leaders at the 27th ASEAN Summit in 2015.

Transmission line network management to be improved

Electricite du Laos (EDL) and General Electric International Inc. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation to study a proposal to improve the transmission and distribution of electricity through a line network.

Vietnam PM is the Last ASEAN Minister to Land in Vientiane Capital

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived at Wattay International Airport yesterday becoming the last ASEAN government leader to have landed in Vientiane for the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits and other major events scheduled for Sep 6-8. 

ASEAN Needs to Get Out in front of Megatrends’

When Australia became ASEAN’s first dialogue partner in 1974 and began the economic cooperation programmes, they couldn’t have predicted that ASEAN would dramatically outpace the rest of the world on GDP growth per capita from the late 1970s onwards.

Mekong Region Builds Business Networks

A meeting of the Friends of ASEAN Mekong Region or CMLTV Business convened in Vientiane yesterday as part of the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit 2016.

Two Men Arrested with 2,523 Amphetamine Pills

Vientiane police recently arrested two men in Khamchalern village, Hadxaifong district and seized 2,523 amphetamine pills, 18 bags of methamphetamine, 189 million kip in cash, and two mobile phones, the Khuamsangob newspaper reported yesterday.

Govt Takes Aim at Locust Invasion

The government is making a major effort to wipe out the plague of locusts that is afflicting crops in northern Laos.

Lao Women Make Strides in Gender Equality

Vangvieng district: More than 40 officials from the Ministry of Culture, Information and Tourism attended a two-day workshop here from September 5-6 on gender equality in 2016-2020.