Laos News Archives

The Family Hotel Vientiane Laos is a new hotel situated on Phang Kham Road ; within walking distance of many restaurants and bars where visitors tend to gather in the city.

Lao and Chinese entrepreneurs who will jointly invest in Nam Mang 1 hydropower project expect to sign a project development agreement with the Lao government by the end of this year, according to project coordinator.

Navigation "Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Defense Minister Prawit Wonguwon and Army Chief of Staff, General Anupong Paochinda, have launched a massive campaign of armed abuse, intimidation and threats to seek to seek to force some 4,000 Lao Hmong political refugees in Thailand back to the communist regime in Laos that they fled," ...

A gateway to Vientiane and Laos, Nong Khai is a delightful destination endowed with fertile paddies, abundant fish, natural and manmade attractions skirting the Mekong River.

South Korea has granted 3.5 million dollars to build Laos' first children's hospital, media reports said Wednesday.

The inflow of investment into Laos is expected to see a big jump this year despite the global recession, according to data released by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

VIENTIANE, 26 October 2009 - Farmers in southern Laos who lost their harvests to floods caused by Typhoon Ketsana face a year of hunger if they do not receive rice seeds soon to replant their crops, the Food and Agriculture Organization warns.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang rings the bell together with Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh to declare the open of Laos Pavilion ahead of the 6th China-ASEAN Exposition in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Aotonomous Region, on Oct.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, fifth from left, link hands with ASEAN leaders during group shot before the ASEAN-Japan meeting at the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, in Cha-am of Hua Hin district, south of Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct.

Luang Prabang, the first world heritage of Laos will be the second province in Laos to launch a project to prohibit secondary school students from riding motorbikes to school.

Laos has 3,395 known cases of people infected with HIV, of whom 2,180 have developed AIDS, state media reported on Friday.

The UN launched a flash appeal on 22 October for more than US$10 million after Typhoon Ketsana brought devastating floods to Laos, hitting some of the nationa s poorest and most vulnerable people.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang meets with Laos' Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh at the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Oct.

Business owners are confident of the economic situation in Laos and remain positive that the second half of the fiscal year will indicate further improvements.

Thailand accounts for about 90 per cent of the human trafficking from neighbouring Laos, with girls aged 12 to 18 making up a majority of the victims, state media reported Tuesday.

Vang Vieng, the tubing capital of the world. We got here after a five hour bus trip from Luang Prabang on the infamous Route 13 road.

Laos and Thailand expected to boost further cooperation in cultural conservation for the sake of the national socio-economic development of the two countries, the Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported Monday.

A summit of regional leaders due to begin in Thailand on Oct. 23 has brought into relief a rift within the 10-member bloc about the space that should be given to civil society voices at such a gathering.

Submitted photo....Daovy Vongnarath came to Canada in 1979 as a Laotian refugee sponsored by a church in MacGregor.

Lao tourism service providers won six awards at the 2009 Tourism Alliance Awards at the 2009 International Travel Expo held in Vietnam 's Ho Chi Minh City recently.

Lao Hmong Students Give Voice to Laos Hmong Refugee Crisis in Washington, D.C. & Honor 15th Anniversary of "Tragic Mountains" & author and humanitarian Dr.

A Russian mining company will invest US$5 million to search for tin and zinc ore reserves in Attapeu province in southern part of Laos.

The Nam Theun 2 hydropower facility, including the Nakai Dam and Reservoir, Power Station, Regulating Dam and Downstream Channel, Substation and Transmission Lines, is nearly complete, and is set to commence commercial operations in early 2010.

Thailand's long standing plan to institutionalise the interface between Asean leaders and representatives of the more than 70 Asean civil society organisations are crumbling.

It's a long way from Calgary to Hollywood and the New York Times bestseller list, but Calgarians Daniel Fraser and Scott Coates have made the trip -- via Asia.

Tropical storm Ketsana which hit Lao southern provinces last week has left thousands of people homeless in the country, Lao newspaper the Vientiane Times reported Friday.

Laos has a population of about 5 million people. This is the same as Singapore but the land area is large.

HUE, Vietnam : Asian nations were left counting the cost of Typhoon Ketsana Friday, with the death tolls rising in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, according to Red Cross reports.

Vientiane: More emergency aid reached southern Laos yesterday, aid workers said, after Tropical Storm Ketsana left at least 24 people dead last week in one of Asia's poorest nations.

Former Woodland resident and Yolo County ombudsman Harrison Ulrich Jack and 11 other co-defendants were issued a five count "superseding indictment" for their roles in an alleged plot to overthrow the Laotian government.

THE death toll from Tropical Storm Ketsana in Laos has risen to 24, the country's Red Cross said on Saturday as a UN agency said the first emergency food aid had reached the worst-hit province.

The residents of Vieng Phoukha, a city in the mountains of northern Laos, have a benefactor they know as "Grandpa." "Grandpa" is 85-year-old Larry Chapman of Hercules, and before they ever met him, the Vieng Phoukha villagers knew him as the man who paid for the digging of wells so they could have fresh water.

Typhoon Ketsana has killed 16 people and left 135 missing in Laos, the country's Red Cross said.

Typhoon Ketsana caused widespread flooding in Laos' southern provinces of Xiangkong and Saravane, although no casualties were reported, Radio Vientiane said Wednesday.

Sojitz Corp., a Japanese trading company, and Nittetsu Mining Co. gained government approval from Laos to explore for copper as demand for commodities increases, four people involved in the talks said.