Japan Mine Action Service (JMAS), a Japanese non-profit organization engaged in UXOs clearance donated COVID-19 cleaning and disinfecting supplies to the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) unit of the Lao People’s Army (LPA) in Vientia…
The 3rd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) closed on Jun 18 after successfully wrapping up the discussion of the agendas as millions of Party members, boundlessly inspired by the leadership of the great Pa…
Thousands of Japanese companies began the rollout of their workplace vaccine programs Monday, inoculating company workers and their families. Some of the companies had been critical of what they said was the government’s slow pace of Japan’s COVID-19 i…
SYDNEY – New figures show that migration to Australia plummeted last year to the lowest level in more than 100 years.Modern Australia has been built on immigration. Thirty percent of the population was born overseas. Migrants from England are the bigge…
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says he looks forward to boosting global refugee resettlements after sharp declines caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and drastic cuts to resettlements in the United States under the former Trump adminis…
The United States says it is sending 2.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan, substantially increasing its initial promise of 750,000 shots.Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said the increased doses from the U.S. are a “moving gesture of friendship.” …
SYDNEY – Researchers in Australia are starting clinical trials of a new type of COVID-19 vaccine — a nasal spray. Scientists at Brisbane’s Nucleus Network believe that the treatment could be more effective against the virus than the AstraZeneca and Pfi…
GENEVA – African health officials are urgently appealing for vaccines to combat a third wave of COVID-19 surging across the continent.The World Health Organization reports the number of African COVID-19 cases has exceeded 5 million and the disease has …
The China Railway No. 5 Engineering Group (CREC-5) has completed the construction of the main structure of the longest bridge along the China-Laos Railway, the Phonethong super major bridge.The Chinese engineering company, the CREC-5, told Xinhua on We…
A Friendship Medal has been awarded to the outgoing Representative of the World Health Organisation to the Lao PDR Mark Andrew Jacobs in recognition of his contribution to promoting Laos’ health sector and strengthening the cooperation and relations be…
LANZAROTE, SPAIN – More than 40 African migrants were rescued after their boat ran aground on the rocky coast of Lanzarote in Spain’s Canary Islands late on Thursday, emergency services said, while over 100 people on two more boats made it safely to ot…
The Delta variant of the coronavirus, first detected in India, has been detected in neighboring Sri Lanka. “It is the worst we could have imaged at such a time,” Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, director of the Allergy, Immunity and Cell Biology Unit at the Sr…
