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
Asia Laos The country recorded over 6.000 cases of dengue fever in the first half of 2022 - data is issued by the Ministry of Health's Centre for Health Information and Education
Asia Laos The country begins supplying electricity to Singapore under the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project
Asia Laos The country is particularly vulnerable to the consequences of resistance to antimicrobial drugs such as antibiotic - in health, agriculture and the environment - and is intensifying health education and awareness-raising to mitigate the problem