SYDNEY – Workers and residents in Sydney were ordered to stay home for a week on Friday, as authorities locked down several central areas of Australia’s largest city to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.Sixty-five C…
LONDON – Zhang Zhizhen qualified for Wimbledon on Thursday to become the first Chinese man in the Open era to play in the Grand Slam tournament.The 24-year-old defeated Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo 6-0, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6) in the final round of…
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Leaders of Indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday that investigators have found more than 600 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children — a discovery that follows last month’s re…
Vientiane authorities have an amitious plan to have 80 per cent of its population vaccinated against Covid-19 to create herd immunity and break the chain of Covid-19 infection by the end of this year.Over 260,000 people have received a first shot of Co…
Four have tested positive to Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, according to the National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.The newly reported cases included three local transmissions in Vientiane and one imported case – returning w…
Digital technology is expanding at a rapid rate and is a crucial key for the development of all sectors, especially in areas of administration and the development of human resources.It is aimed for a shared, standardized and connected system, to avoid …
The Lao PDR and Australia have a long partnership in education, sharing a mutual interest in improving learning outcomes of more girls and boys of primary-school age, particularly those experiencing disadvantage.Since 2015, the Ministry of Education an…
Feeling like you are being watched? It could be from a lot farther away than you think. Astronomers took a technique used to look for life on other planets and flipped it around — so instead of looking to see what’s out there, they tried to see what p…
The U.S. space agency NASA aspires to land humans on the moon every year for 12 consecutive years, Administrator Bill Nelson testified to a congressional committee Wednesday in support of a request to boost the agency’s fiscal 2022 budget.Nelson acknow…
A special committee with the United Nations’s cultural agency says Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be placed on a list of World Heritage sites that should be designated as “in danger.” The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ…
The consumption of raw freshwater fish, a staple diet for millions of people in many parts of Southeast Asia, is coming under closer scrutiny after the detection of a foodborne hazard in several countries of the region, prompting a warning by food saf…
A ceremony was held on Jun 18 for eight graduates of the Field Epidemiology Training (FET) programme, a world-class training supported by the Ministry of Health, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and the World Healt…
