The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Department of Livestock and Fisheries (DLF) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, successfully organized a series of consultation workshops in Sanamxay District…
Vice Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Thongphat Vongmany, other senior government officials and other stakeholders joined with UNDP yesterday for the Final Steering Committee Meeting held in Vientiane to close the GEF-supported SAFE Ecosystems Proj…
The Veterinary Vaccine Product Centre, Vientiane is capable of producing about 10 million doses of animal vaccines per year, according to the Director General of the Livestock and Fisheries Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.“The centre p…
Rosmarie Trapp, whose Austrian family the von Trapps was made famous in the musical and beloved movie “The Sound of Music,” has died.She died Friday at the age of 93 at a nursing home in Morrisville, Vermont, Trapp Family Lodge announced. Her brother J…
North Korea said Friday it was achieving “good results” in its fight against its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, as the number of people with fever symptoms rose past 2 million.A wave of COVID infections, which North Korea first confirmed last week,…
The Department of Forestry (DOF), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry held a national consultation workshop on May 18 among key stakeholders working to safeguard the nation’s protected areas with the finalization of the updated Decree on Protected Are…
Every year around 40 Lao people fall victim to unexploded ordnance (UXO) left since the end of Indochina war (1964-1973).“During the war, the United States operated more than 580,000 bomber flights dropping nearly 3 million tons of bombs (about 270 mi…
More than 1,000 Lao workers are expected to be sent to the Republic of Korea next month.The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare has recently authorized Buasavanh Employment Service Company and iJobs Company to recruit workers for the Korean labour ma…