Tad Yuang waterfall has won an ASEAN award for sustainability, for improvements to facilities and services, vaccinated staff and measures to prevent the spread, and the fact that provincial authorities have encouraged locals to grow organic vegetables

The Bokeo Province State Water Supply Company has stirred controversy with a new regulation requiring households to pay LAK 10.000 (about $0,47) for each water bill receipt

A labor festival was organized In Vientiane to try to meet the urgent need to fill 560 positions in 56 companies at a time of employment crisis

The country faced a difficult year in 2023, battling 76 extreme weather events and wildfire;; these disasters, with storms, floods, landslides, and fires, have provoked estimated da magra for around $53,5 million