The Vietnamese government’s current key tasks are curbing inflation, maintaining macroeconomic development, and ensuring social welfare and sustainable growth, of which inflation reduction is its top …

Bangkok - United Nations-sponsored climate change talks designed to further the Bali Road Map for cutting carbon emissions by setting down a work programme for the world opened on Monday in Bangkok. T…

I had a chance to attend a Baci Ceremony on Saturday, and a Baci is used for many special events, but it’s sometimes called Sou Khuane which we often hear in events such as a Lao Traditional Wedding, a homecoming, after a birth of a new born and the Baci is for both the mother [...]

On March 22, 2008, the Lao community in Louisiana celebrated the annual Lao New Year Festival. Check out the video clips of the celebration with parade, food, music, water fight and more.
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Vientiane to raise education standards
The Vientiane Education Department will further expand and improve the basic system of education in primary and secondary schools in Vientiane in the 2008-2009 academic year.
The strategy will focus on three main points: expanding educational opportunities for children, improving the quality of education, and strengthening administration.
There are many problems both in [...]

Bangkok - Untied Nations-sponsored climate change talks designed to take the Bali Road Map for cutting carbon emissions a step further began Monday in Bangkok. The meeting, coming three months after a…

Climate negotiators facing the daunting challenge of controlling global warming without damaging the world economy gathered Monday in Thailand for their first talks since agreeing in December to compl…

THAILAND: March 31, 2008 THAILAND - Delegates from up to 190 nations will meet in Bangkok from March 31-April 4 for the first round of UN talks on a sweeping new pact to fight climate change. Th…

China and Laos reached comprehensive agreement on Sunday to boost their all-round and cooperative relations, eyeing on further achievement in traditional friendship and bilateral ties. The two nations…