Laos has confirmed 285 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 32,314 including 7,005 active cases and 40 deaths, according to the National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.Of the new confirmed cases, 28…
Facebook says it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the next five years to work on a new computing platform.The company said in a blog post Sunday that those high-skilled workers will help build “the metaverse,” a futuristic notion…
The first new Alzheimer’s treatment in more than 20 years was hailed as a breakthrough when regulators approved it more than four months ago, but its rollout has been slowed by questions about its price and how well it works.Several major medical cente…
Like other ranchers across the country, Rusty Kemp for years grumbled about rock-bottom prices paid for the cattle he raised in central Nebraska, even as the cost of beef at grocery stores kept climbing.He and his neighbors blamed it on consolidation i…
Funeral services were held Saturday for victims of Friday’s suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar that killed at least 47 people and wounded more than 70.Islamic State’s Amaq news agency said late Friday that…
Researchers, experts and practitioners from the government, academic and development sectors in Laos and other countries presented recent research evidence on adolescent health and development during the annual Adolescent Research Day (ARD) 2021 under …
On Oct 14 of each year, members of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) commemorate World Standards Day, which recognizes volu…
Some 573 new Covid-19 cases have been recorded nationwide over the past 24 hours bringing the total to 31,188 including 7,529 active cases and 36 deaths, according to Deputy Director General of the National Centre for Laboratory and Epidemiology, Minis…
On 14 October 2020, eleven Lao high school students headed for Japan to study in Japanese high schools under the Asia-Kakehashi Project (Kakehashi means “bridging” in Japanese) supported by the Japanese Government.They were full of hope at being able t…
Yet in the midst of this all, there is an encouraging new momentum and energy building as we strive to overhaul the ways in which our food is produced, stored, distributed and consumed. We have started confronting the problems and making the structures…
The year 2021 is a truly remarkable one for the Chinese people. This year marks the centenary of the Communist Party of China. It is also the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the lawful seat of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations…
Recent studies indicate Canada’s decision to extend the interval between the first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines can actually lead to increased resistance to the virus. It also finds mixing the brand and type of doses gives better protection.Th…
