People and government

Vietnam border campaigner Sam An vows to return in April

Outspoken Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker Um Sam An on 8 February vowed to return to Cambodia in April despite fearing arrest over his prominent role in the CNRP’s campaign to highlight Vietnamese territorial encroachment, which raised the government’s ire last year. Keep reading ...

Armed Chinese threaten Lao banana workers

Armed Chinese guards are forcing Lao workers in the country’s northern Oudomxay province to labor in banana plantations contaminated with dangerous chemicals, local sources tell RFA’s Lao Service. A chief of the Nongbouadeang village in the province’s Houn district told RFA that 50 Lao workers in ...

Vietiane declaration on Laos development cooperation signed

The Vientiane Declaration on Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (VD II or Vientiane Partnership Declaration), a result of joint efforts between the government and development partners to shift from effective aid to effective development cooperation, was signed late last week in the Laotian capital. Keep reading ...

Lao education officials confer on higher education strategy

Lao Ministry of Education and Sports’ senior officials and involved sectors gathered on 5 February to discuss national higher education development and strategic planning from now until 2025. The meeting’s major goals were to draft a strategy and development plan for the higher education sector for the ...

Lao officials discuss preparations for ASEAN meetings

Preparations for the 20th Senior Official Committee for ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (SOCA) and the 15th ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council (ASCC) were on track, according to the concerned authority. Lao Senior Officials for SOCA and ASCC led by Mass Media Department Director General of the Ministry of Information, Culture ...

Lao election candidate numbers announced

The total number of candidates standing to be potential members of Laos’ National Assembly (NA) and Provincial/capital Assemblies (PAs) has been announced for the March 20 election. But a list of their names has yet to be declared with all details of candidates for the NA and ...

Stimulus stuck in slow lane

Thai Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak’s appointment at the economic helm late last August was followed by rapid-fire launches of stimulus measures to revive the slowing economy. Measures worth more than 400 billion baht were announced but disbursement of the funds was slow, snagged by red tape. ...

Union parliament sets March 17 as deadline for presidential nominations

Myanmar’s Union parliament has set 17 March as the deadline for the lower and upper houses to submit their nominations for president. Holding its first session today with MPs elected last November, the Pyidaungsu announced that parliamentary committees would start discussing the presidential nominees on 17 March. Keep reading ...

Despite rise in deadly accidents, seat belts not catching on

The penalties for failing to fasten your seat belt may include a K30,000 fine and a broken neck. The police are not enforcing the first part of the penalty because the necessary by-laws have not yet been approved by parliament. But the second part of the ...

New university to link up to SE Asian economic corridor

A new research university at Savannakhet – Laos’ second-largest city – in the western region is being built with loans and funding of up to US$40 million from the Asian Development Bank, or ADB, to provide skilled graduates for the region’s ‘economic corridor’ that runs ...

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