01/08/2009
Laos to host 17th Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (The Nation - Thailand's English news)
Bangkok - Laos will play host to the 17th annual Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Vientiane on January 11 to 15, officials confirmed Thursday. "We are expecting over 300 delegates from 17 countries," said Lao Foreign Ministry spokesman Yong Chanthalangsy, in a telephone interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Laos, a communist country since 1975, is under a one-party system. The next ...
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01/07/2009
Foreign Minister Nakasone to visit Thailand, Cambodia, Laos from Sat.+ (Thailandnews.net)
TOKYO, Jan. 7 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone will visit Thailand, Cambodia and Laos over the weekend for talks with his respective counterparts and sign exchanges of notes on d...
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01/07/2009
Giant investment project to Laos submitted to Government (Philippine News Agency)
HANOI, Jan. 7 (PNA/VNA) -– The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI) has submitted to the Prime Minister for approval a 1 billion USD project to build a golf course, five-star hotels and hostels in Vientiane, Laos.
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01/07/2009
Laos: Gov't Starts Imposing 10% Value-added Tax On Consumer Products (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
VIENTIANE, LAOS: The Lao government has introduced a value-added tax (VAT), which requires consumers to pay an additional 10% of the basic purchase price of certain products bought in Laos.
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01/07/2009
Laos eyes further cooperation with HCM City (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad praised current cooperation programmes between HCM City and Lao localities, and invited Vietnamese businesses to expand their investment in Laos.
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01/07/2009
ADB to grant $ 1.2B aid to Laos to boost economy (Philippine News Agency)
HANOI, Jan. 7 (PNA/Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is expected to grant aid worth 1.2 billion U.S. dollars to help Laos boost economy and minimize adverse impacts of the on-going global economic crisis, Lao newspaper Social Economic Times reported Wednesday.
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01/06/2009
Games-Laos asks for support after 'community Games' jibe (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)
BANGKOK, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Organisers of this year's Southeast Asian Games have called for understanding among member countries after Malaysia's sports minister blasted Laos for turning the competition into a low-level "community Games".
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01/08/2009
Mark Morris graduate heads up nutrition project in Laos (The Daily News)
Some college grads choose business as a career; others opt to try and eradicate hunger, sickness or poverty, and some take off to see the world. Senoe Torgerson, 33, has done all three.
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01/08/2009
China Datang Eyes Africa as Domestic Power Use Wanes (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- China Datang Corp. , the Chinese power producer with investments in Laos, Cambodia and Kazakhstan, plans to explore the African market as the global financial crisis slows domestic demand for electricity.
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01/08/2009
Laos to check for tainted food at borders (Philippine News Agency)
VIENTIANE, Jan. 8 (PNA/VNA) –- The Lao government has announced it is to intensify inspections of imported food at border checkpoints around the country after 200 local garment workers suffered stomach upsets last week, apparently caused by imported food, a local paper reported.
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