Asia Laos Despite signs of economic recovery in early 2022, Laos' public and private debt will exceed 100% of GDP by 2022, according to the World Bank's latest economic update
Asia Laos Residents have expressed their discontent with the request for donations, despite an existing budget, by the Vientiane Capital Department of Education and Sports to support athletes who will represent the city at next month's National Games
Asia Laos Lao agricultural products generated US$522 million in revenue in the first half of 2022 and accounted for 20% of all exported products
Asia Laos Figures for 2021-2022 show that 91,5% of the population has access to clean water and 82% use hygienic latrines; the ambition is to be free of open defecation by 2025
Asia Laos Mekong River Commission launched a competition that challenges university students in the region to design a sustainable and cost-effective technology to monitor the Mekong's water level, rainfall, soil moisture and water quality
Asia Laos People affected by the Nateuy station construction project by the Laos-China Railway have been transferred to newly built houses in Luang Namtha Province
Asia Laos Vientiane Agro-Forestry Development Consultant (AFDC) has extended a project in the Nongkhamsean wetland to protect biodiversity, support ecology and increase ecotourism
Asia Laos The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued a decision allowing foreign land firms to provide land surveying and valuation services
Asia Laos The use of a new breed of mosquito will be tested in the country: the yellow fever mosquito, injected with Wolbachia bacteria, could help control the transmission of dengue fever
Asia Laos Dengue fever infections in Laos have reached 18.000 cases since January, and 17 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health
Asia Laos A programme supported by the Walt Disney Company to improve working conditions globally was the focus of discussions between representatives from the US and Laos
Asia Laos President and government officials visited farmers villages in Paklai district, Xayaboury, to congratulate for the results of the first 2022 crops and to encourage them to continue to live in harmony and maintain traditional practices
Asia Laos New images of hundreds of trees in forest areas between the Ngime and Hia rivers that had been felled led Authorities in Xayaboury to discover that illegal logs were being harvested and processed in Phaing district