The Korea Exchange ("KRX"), a leading regional equities and derivatives exchange, announced that it has secured a preliminary agreement with the Government of Laos to set up a stock exchange in the country's capital of Vientiane.
HA NOI — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will attend the 5th Cambodia-Laos-Viet Nam Development Triangle Summit in Vientiane next Wednesday. The Prime Ministers of the three Indochina countries and senior advisors will use the...
The blackened tree trunks say it all. Three times in recent months these tracts of palm oil plantation have gone up in smoke, along with plants and machinery. The neighbouring coconut operation suffered the same fate, but there...
The government of Laos is now searching for investors willing to fund the national railway project to support the growing mining sector and heavy goods delivery, the Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported on Friday. The railway...
Between 2m and 3m hectares of land - as much as 15% of Laos territory - has been signed away The blackened tree trunks say it all. At face value, leasing agricultural concessions looks like a godsend for Laos, a poor country...
VIENTIANE, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Despite being a predominantly agrarian country, the Lao PDR (Laos) has insufficient livestock to meet the increasing demand of its wealthier neighbours - Thailand, China and Vietnam - for...
It is two days to full moon, and thus two days to the end of Phansaa, Laos’s three-month Buddhist equivalent of Lent. To say that Vientiane, the Lao capital, is in a state of excitement would be an understatement. Hundreds of...
Photos of Vientiane, Laos' very strange and sedate capital are up at the link. I made it ti Vietnam. Many people had 'warned' me that the Vietnamese were an intense group of folks. And I have to admit, they were right. But...
In Luang Prabang, the Peace Pagoda (also known as Phra That Khong Santi Chedi) contains murals with scenes of women servants in intimate embraces. (Nov. 8, 2008) Just the facts There are reportedly no women's bars in Laos, but...