Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the continuing legacy of death and injury resulting from U.S. bombing raids of 1964-1973 during the Vietnam War with a visit to a prosthetic and education center in the Lao capital on Wednesday.
A rare spotlight is being cast on Laos as world leaders, including President Obama, prepare to gather in its capital, Vientiane, for meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, and other countries beginning on Tuesday.
The upcoming G20 summit is a platform for China to play a steering role in seeking global cooperation, addressing international financial and economic issues, and supporting less-developed countries, Lao President Bounnhang Vorachit said on Thursday.
Fixed bus routes linking Vietnam, Laos and Thailand will be launched, said Directorate for Roads of Vietnam on Monday.
Laos' President Bounnhang Vorachitch will pay an official friendship visit to Myanmar soon, accompanied by Laos' first lady, according to an announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar on Tuesday.
Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith said here Thursday that Laos supports China's stance on the South China Sea arbitration case unilaterally initiated by the former Philippine government.
The Lao government takes graduation from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) as its key long-term objective, a high-ranking Lao official said, according to local daily Vientiane Times on Wednesday.
Seek and destroy efforts for decades-old bombs and explosive munitions strewn across landlocked Laos since the Vietnam War era will get a boost of 2,178,865 U.S. dollars in funding from the United States, local media reported Monday.
Vietnamese Prime Minister (PM) Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith on Sunday agreed to work with other countries and international organizations to manage and use the Mekong water resources in a sustainable and effective manner.
Vietnam and Laos pledged to closely coordinate with each other as well as with other countries and organizations in the management and sustainable use of water in the Mekong River, said Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang on Tuesday.
General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and Lao President Bounnhang Vorachit pledged on Saturday to further develop bilateral relations with China.
Laos's National Assembly on Wednesday (April 20) appointed Communist Party chief Bounnhang Vorachit as the country's new president and named foreign minister Thongloun Sisoulith as prime minister.
The 220kV Xekaman1-Pleiku2 transmission line in Vietnam's territory, which transmits electricity from Laos to Vietnam, has been completed, Vietnam's National Power Transmission Corporation (EVN NPT) said Wednesday.
The equipment offered by China for an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit later this year was handed over to Laos on Friday.
The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism will bring fresh opportunities to China-Laos economic cooperation and boost the Belt and Road Initiative, said a leading entrepreneur here.
Laos kicks off its Asean chairmanship today with an agenda-setting foreign ministers' retreat in Vientiane, its capital on the east bank of the Mekong River.
Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Thongloun Sisoulith on Monday met with visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
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