The Lao Committee for Rural Development and Poverty Eradication and the Northwest Steering Committee Vietnam met yesterday in Vientiane to strengthen cooperation in various sectors. The meeting discussed continued cooperation between Laos and Vietnam in border and rural development along with poverty eradication efforts to improve living standards. Deputy Head of the Committee for Rural […]
Read MoreAn international airport project scheduled for construction by a Chinese developer in northwestern Laos’s Bokeo province has been canceled so that an airport built earlier in the province may be upgraded instead, sources say. The abandoned project was to have been built on land taken by the King Romans Group from local villagers in 2014, […]
Read MoreLaos and Malaysia plan to continue to promote economic cooperation after seeing the progress made in recent years. Malaysia’s investments have helped to improve the quality of life for Lao people, it was noted when economic experts from the two countries met in Vientiane last week. The Lao delegation was led by the Director of […]
Read MoreThe 41st Southeast Asia Seminar of Economic Development in Laos and the GMS is being held at the Faculty of Economics and Business Management of the National University of Laos (NUOL) from November 2-7. The event is being attended by NUOL Vice President Associate Professor Dr Houngphet Chanthavong and Professor of Economics at the Centre for […]
Read MoreThe government has presented a draft Law on Technology Transfer to the National Assembly for approval with the hope that its promulgation will ensure coordinated management and systematic technology transfer throughout the country. Minister of Science and Technology Prof. Dr Boviengkham Vongdara represented the drafting sub-committee in introducing the draft law to the Assembly at […]
Read MoreTwenty years since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, analysts are once again looking skeptically at potentially unsustainable debt piles in the region. Largely untouched by the ’97 collapse, Laos could get pulled into a new era of financial turmoil. An International Monetary Fund (IMF) report released this year said that the risk of “external debt distress” […]
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