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,…
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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…
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…
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 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…
Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel’s recommendation, opening a third COVID-19 shot to healthy …
New Zealand’s government said Thursday it will hand out an extra few hundred dollars to more than 2 million lower-income adults to help them navigate what it describes as “the peak of the global inflation storm.”The payments are part of a package of ne…
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…