The Ministry of Planning and Investment of Laos and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) held a meeting - the 2023 Annual Country Programme Review and Priorities for 2024 - in Vientiane on May 15,2024.
The U.S. Government provided 50 laptops worth more than USD145,000 to the Lao Ministry of Foreign Affairs in support of Laos’s ASEAN chair year during a ceremony on May 6, 2024
Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith and a delegation of high-ranking officials visited the Russian Federation on May 8-10 in response to the invitation of the Russian President Vladimir Putin
The Mekong River Commission(MRC) will host a major public forum to share latest updates on several hydropower projects along the Mekong mainstream and tributary and garner stakeholders’ opinions in tackling many pressing issues facing Southeast Asia’s largest waterway.
The Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism’s Office recently issue a notice warning foreign tourists against unlawful foreign currency trade at unauthorised establishments.
The first train travelling from Guiyang in Guizhou province, China, to Vientiane arrived in Laos on May 9,2024 carrying 240 Chinese tourists and creating even stronger links between the two countries
On May 9, 2024, Lao Vice President Ms Pany Yathortou received the outgoing Japanese Ambassador to Laos Kobayashi Kenichi on the occasion of the completion of his diplomatic duties in the Lao PDR between 2021and 2024
Lao Party Secretary General and State President Thongloun Sisoulith and a delegation of high-ranking officials of Laos left Vientiane on May 7,2024 for a state visit to the Russian Federation in response to the invitation of President Vladimir Putin of Russia
