Weekly News
News recorded on monday to friday - click below to read more


News Wednesday 23/7/2008

-NA debates draft amended law on court verdict enforcement
-New Lao ambassador presents credentials to Vice President of Venezuela
-Songkhone district prepares for rainy season crops
-Advertisement as a key in response to bird flu spread
-Journalists ask for money
-New City Pillar Park in Houaphanh province handed over
-Volunteers learn immunization
-New hospital of Songkhone district opened for public
-MOTC to increase fares of inter-city buses
-Phongsavanh expands branches to three provinces

News Tuesday 22/7/2008

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Safe animal products discussed by deputies
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Australia helps to reduce poverty in Saravane and Sekong
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World Health Day marked in Vientiane
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Laos to manufacture electric wires by 2009
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Fake Nokia hand phones seized
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Phongsaly governor visits Samphanh district ...........
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More than 52,000 foreign tourists visit Oudomsay in 2006-2007
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Charity Golf for development fund raising to be held
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Assurances Generales Du Laos opens new office in Savannakhet
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56 cattle die of haemorrhagic septicemia in Houameuang

News Monday 21/7/2008

-Foreign Minister to attend 41st ASEAN Ministerial Meeting
-Brunei Sultan’s 62 st Birthday Celebration
-Swiss government assists Lao trade and export
-DPM urges Oudomxay to take a hard look at village clusters
-Japan provides grant to Lao
- South Korea provides educational grant to Vientiane Capital
-Amphetamines seized at Wattay Airport
- Agro Bank branch in Saravane plans to loan 13 billion kip to farmers
-Laos strives to become rice exporter by 2013
-Opium addicts get medical treatment in Luang Namtha


News Friday 18/7/2008

-NA members continues to debate draft law on handicraft
-Diplomatic relations between Laos and Kuwait established
-Dao-Heuang Group invests 29 million Euros in coffee plant
-Singapore awards 2008 Singapore scholarships to Lao students
-Villagers in Sekong urge government to develop infrastructure
-Irrigation facilities built in Oudomsay
-Deposit campaign of agro-bank is effective in Sayaboury
- Champassak Governor calls for local contribution to National Games
-Preparations for Vietnam-Laos border landmark upgrade
-Laos announces venues for 25th SEA Games


NewsThursday 17/7/2008

-Japan grant assistance to improve primary education in Saravane
-Fierce debate on proposed Lao media law
-Lao Company and Esso Discuss Asphalt Products
-CASSAVA POWDER exported
-UXOs clearance in progress
-Laos Prepares to sign International Conventions
-Meeting held to disseminate regulations on cosmetics
-Phonsay district access to electricity
-100th agent of Western Union opened at Agricultural Promotion.....
-Savannakhet focuses on building production groups


NewsWednesday 16/7/2008

- NA discuss name of ethnic groups and media Law
- French National Day marked in Vientiane
- Vientiane releases fingerings back to natural site
- Athletic dormitory construction for 2009 SEA Games kicks off
- Foreign Minister receives Switzerland guest
- Vientiane Technology Institute held seminar on computer programming for teachers
-Women vocational training centre handed over
- Vientiane: carries out plan to reduce poverty
-State budget law disseminated


NewsTuesday 15/7/2008

- Foreign Minister receives New Zealand guest
- Late President Souphanouvong remembered
- Ministers share ideas for NA’s fifth session
-1,200 year-old artifacts are now in a safe place
- Laos and ADB discuss boosting private sector
-Vientiane, Hanoi youths strengthen cooperation
-More than 300 Lao Hmong repatriated home
-Vientiane Badminton Federation hopes for five gold medals
-Nambak focuses on agriculture
-Vietnam gives US$5 to build Saysettha public park and That Luang Square


News Monday 14/7/2008

- LFNC Chairman visits Vientiane province to boost religion and ethnic affairs
-Vice President of NA asks for more money for MIC
-Greetings to Mongolia
-PM Bouasone Congratulates Serbia’s New PM
- World Population Day marked
- Completion of 2nd phase of Talat Sao Mall by 2009
-Northern part transportation improvement discussed
-Vientiane Personnel Administration Office receives computers
- Sing district people make money from sugar cane
- World Environment Day Celebration at Sepon Operation


News on Friday 11/7/2008

-Thai investor interested in investment in Laos
-NA members asks government to increase budget for rural development
-Strengthening Laos-Cuba co-operation on information
-PM confirms to maintain economic stability
-Lao Tourism Business Association introduces new head
- Bokeo APB branch loans 9.1 bln kip to rice farmers
-Lt. Gen. Duangchai Phichith presents Labour-Victory Medals
to Vietnam’s Army

- Korean company helps Laos build primary schools
-Fund for the Poor
-Scholarship grantees leave for The Republic of India


News on Thursday 10/7/2008

- Korean businessman grants US$2.8 million to Laos
-Standing Deputy PM arrives home from Japan
-US$ 500,000 offered to help earthquake victims in China
- Govt, NGOs discuss on handling with natural disasters
-LWU opens new Art of Silk showroom
-National Rice Reserve to be established soon
-First Cambodian bank in Laos opened
-Primary school built for rural communities
-Vietnamese army units and soldiers decorated by Laos
-Bachieng Chaleunsouk remains 300 poor families


News on Wednesday 09/7/2008

-NA vice president asks government to boost the agricultural production
-Laos and Vietnam enhance co-operation on security
-Youths in Oudomxay has opportunities to gain skills in cooking
-Luang Namtha-Bokeo residents risk HIV infection
- Chanthaboury receives computer from DDD
- Construction of 4th Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge to kick off in 2009
-Nayobay provides 3.6 billion kip to Soukhoumma
- Nonkor Neua has new school
- ADB, UNODC sign MOU to help former opium growers
- Evaluation on bauxite exploration held

News on Thuesday 08/7/2008

- National Assembly opens Fifth ordinary session

- Agriculture officials upgrade knowledge on print media
- Lao Airline needs more pilots
- People in rural areas access information centres
- Delayed budget supply, a barrier of Nam Ngum development project
- Sayaboury completes road construction
- Lao-Thai border checkpoint office handed over
- Namkene hydropower dam construction in Kasy to take shape
- 837 migrants arrives home towns
- Oudomsay people learn about women and children protection


News on Monday 07/7/2008

- Conferences focuses on messages of equality through media
- Vietnamese investor to plant acacia on 925 ha in Savannakhet
- Health officials learn Party’s resolution
- Vientiane entertainment sites respect Vientiane rule
- Oudomsay people learn about women and children protection
- Animal raising in northern provinces promoted
- OXFAM Australia helps 54 people living with AIDS
- Laos plans to produce over 2 million tonnes of rice
- Nonsa-Ad primary school completes
-BCEL opens new service unit in Savannakhet



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