(KPL) The government of Japan has provided grant assistance worth JPY 1 billion (USD 8.9 million) to the Lao PDR to support its socio-economic development.

(KPL) The Embassy of Malaysia in Vientiane, Lao PDR has encouraged Lao government officials to apply for fully sponsored short term training courses under the Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme or MTCP.

(KPL) The Lao PDR will benefit from US$72 million in new financing, under three projects approved on Mar 14 by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, which focus on reducing malnutrition in children and improving public resource use and service delivery.

(KPL) Almost four years ago, UNDP had a project in Xayaboury province of northern Lao PDR to help farmers in their struggles to cope with climate change. This February, we returned to one of the villages to see how they have managed with changing weather conditions ever since. The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the global community in 2015, compels us at UNDP Lao PDR to take even more responsibility to ensure that our projects do not only offer a temporary sigh of relief to struggling communities in the Lao PDR, but that they serve as an enduring foundation on which they can begin to build a more sustainable future for themselves.

(KPL) With the aim of strengthening sub-national planning, coordination, monitoring and budgeting for better results for children, a workshop was organized on Friday in Savannakhet province by the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, and the Savannakhet Provincial Department of Planning and Cooperation with support from UNICEF Lao PDR.

(KPL) A Mekong-Lancang Week 2019 was launched on Mar 14 in Vientiane Capital with an aim to promote practical cooperation among people of the six countries namely China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand.

(KPL) The first workshop on strengthening sub-national planning, coordination, monitoring and budgeting for better results for children was organized on March 12 in Attapeu province by the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, and the Attapeu Department of Planning and Cooperation with support from UNICEF Lao PDR.

(KPL) Laos and the Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR) are celebrating more than 25 years of successful collaboration on agriculture research this week in Vientiane.

Ceresa Thai Perfumes, a main sponsor of Miss Laos Contest 2019, on Mar 10 opened its country branch at ITECC Mall, Vientiane on the sidelines of Top Thai Brands 2019

(KPL) During the week of March 4-8, 2019, fifty young entrepreneurs from ASEAN countries and Timor Leste met in Luang Prabang Province, Laos to join a workshop on ecotourism organized through the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI), a U.S. government-funded program.