Lao News Agency (KPL) and Prensa Latina News Agency signed an agreement on exchange of press services cooperation in Vientiane, on 28 October.
Signatories to the document were Director General of KPL, Mr Khampheuy Philapha and President of Prensa Latina News Agency, Luis Enrique Gonzalez Acosta, in the presence of Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Ms Suansavanh Viyakhet and senior officials of both sides.
The agreement aims to establish closer cooperation with each other, in order to serve their common interests on basis of mutual benefit, promote and enlarge bilateral cooperation in the field of news exchange in text, photography and audiovisual formats as well as knowledge in journalism and management. It also exchanges links, webpages and English.
Prensa Latina and KPL are committed to covering activities related to the people of Cuba and Laos in the world.
Two agencies used to sign a cooperation agreement in 1998.

Source: Lao News Agency