Manuela V. Ferro, an economist and senior leader in the World Bank, is the new World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific.Ms. Ferro brings over three decades of experience across Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle E…
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Communities and households in four districts of Huaphan and Xieng Khuang provinces are expected to benefit from a project Strengthening Livelihood Systems. This project, supported by Luxembourg government, will help improve and increase living conditio…
The Lao PDR’s imports and exports in August 2021 reached approximately US$880 million with exports valued at about US$428 million and imports estimated at US$452 million resulting in a trade deficit of US$24 million.The imports and exports didn’t incl…
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the World Bank have launched a US$57 million Lao Landscapes and Livelihoods Project that will generate jobs and
Phongsubthavy Group of Laos would be an exclusive distributor of Vietnamese carmaker VinFast under a memorandum of understanding signed on June 28.Secretary General of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong and Secreta…
The China Railway No. 5 Engineering Group (CREC-5) has completed the construction of the main structure of the longest bridge along the China-Laos Railway, the Phonethong super major bridge.The Chinese engineering company, the CREC-5, told Xinhua on We…
Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp (TYO:8058) will invest in a 600-MW onshore wind farm project in Laos that will supply electricity to Vietnam, Renewables Now – an independent one-stop shop for business news and market intelligence for the global renewable energ…