Mr. Phouthone Meuangpak, President of the Lao Red Cross Society and his delegation had a virtual conference with Secretary General of Thai Red Cross Society Tej Bunnag on Jun 15 to discuss humanitarian work.The Thai Red Cross Secretary General expresse…

Over 1.13 million people across the country have been vaccinated against Covid-19 with 719,562 given first doses and 414,785 fully vaccinated, according to the Centre of Information and Education for Health, Ministry of Health.Source: Lao News Agency

The National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has reported one new case of local transmission in Vientiane on Jun 17.“The new COVID-19 case has brought the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 2,034 including 1,924 r…

Vice President Pany Yathortou on Jun 16 visited Trio garment factory and Trimak garment factory in Vientiane. The two factories are major garment producers in the Lao PDR.Vice President Pany Yathortou urged the management of the two factories to attach…

Kim Jong Il, eternal chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, started working at the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on June 19, 1964. In the whole period of leading the WPK, he built i…

) The Chinese government has provided as a gift 500,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine to the Lao PDR to fight the outbreak of the disease in the country.A handover ceremony for the Chinese aid took place at the Ministry of Health in Vientiane on …

When I took up my role as the regional director of the International Labour Organization in Bangkok, domestic workers were at the forefront of my mind. Not only is the Asia Pacific region home to half of the world’s domestic workers, but this group of …

The National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has reported eight new cases of Covid-19 today.The new infections included six local transmissions in Vientiane and two imported cases from Thailand in Champassak.Some 2,033 have been…

Long after a contentious U.S. presidential election that unleashed a torrent of partisan threats against poll workers and others, many American election officials continue to feel unsafe because of their jobs, according to a recent survey.The survey, c…

China will launch the first crew of its new permanent space station into orbit on Thursday. An official with the China Manned Space Agency announced Wednesday that veteran astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming and rookie Tang Hongbo will blast off fr…

Smaller economies and developing nations are rallying behind a rival global tax reform plan to the one struck last week by the wealthy G-7 nations. Under the agreement, the G-7 nations are backing a global minimum corporate tax of 15%, but smaller na…