The World Bank urged Laos to take immediate steps to stabilise the national economy. With public debt exceeding 100 percent of GDP and a decline in revenue collection, the country confronts economic …
How Will Laos Handle Its 2024 Chairmanship of ASEAN?
Indonesian President Joko Widodo hands over the ASEAN ceremonial gavel to Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone of Laos at the Closing Ceremony of the 43rd ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Jakarta, …
Office of the Narcotics Control closes ranks with Laos on drug smugglers
The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) is working closer with its counterparts in Laos to suppress drug smuggling along the shared border and to track down 48 suspects in the neighbouring …
The invisible killer haunting Laos 50 years after the Vietnam War
At this site just outside the tiny village of Sop Hun, decontamination technicians are meticulously clearing up the legacy of a “secret war” so intense it earned Laos – then home to fewer …
Singapore pledges support for Laos’ 2024 chairmanship of Asean
SINGAPORE – The Republic has pledged its support for Laos’ upcoming chairmanship of Asean, and welcomed the commemoration of 50 years of diplomatic ties between both countries in 2024. Laos’ Deputy …
Myanmar crisis, Timor-Leste accession high on agenda as Laos gears up for Asean chair
LAOS Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith was in Singapore on Thursday (Dec 7) to share more about his country’s priorities as it gears up to chair the Association …
Thailand to tighten rules for foreign firms selling baht bonds
THAILAND plans to regulate the sale of baht-denominated bonds by foreign entities to shield local investors, a move that risks driving away borrowers from Laos and Myanmar. Read more at The Business …
Laos Maps Showing Sites of US Bombings Resurface: ‘Kissinger’s Legacy’
Resurfaced maps showing the heavy Cold War bombardment of Laos have fed the controversial legacy of diplomatic giant Henry Kissinger following his death. Kissinger, a former secretary of state and …
How documentary ‘Beyond Utopia’ obtained shocking footage from inside North Korea
Leaving North Korea is not as simple as climbing a fence — or even … Laos and Vietnam (where hunting and capturing defectors is a profitable business in which people caught are often sold into human …
NA Chairman meets with Vietnamese business community in Laos
Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue met with representatives of over 160 Vietnamese enterprises in Laos on December 5.