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Screening list announced for Luang Prabang Film Festival
Online Reporters, Published on 13/10/2016
» LUANG PRABANG - Thirty-two films will be screened at this year's Luang Prabang Film Festival, which will run from Dec 2 to 7, organisers announced.
Laos clamps down on new year revelry
Online Reporters, Published on 09/04/2015
» Authorities in Vientiane are clamping down on Lao New Year revellers, shutting down entertainment venues at 11pm and forbidding water play on the banks of the Mekong River.
Fire guts Phnom Penh's 'Old Market'
Online Reporters, Published on 24/11/2014
» PHNOM PENH — Fire destroyed the city’s historic “old market” Monday, gutting about two-thirds of the market's 914 stalls, media reports said.
1-stop service for Laos-Viet border
Online Reporters, Published on 18/11/2014
» Laos and Vietnam will introduce a one-stop service to handle both customs and immigrations requirements at a key border checkpoint between the two countries next year.
Malaysian Islamists 'insult Buddhism'
Online Reporters, Published on 23/09/2014
» Political-campaign posters for an Islamic party in Malaysia incited anger among the country’s Buddhists for drawing monks into politics.
Tourists change transit route to Laos
Online Reporters, Published on 14/02/2014
» Long-haul tourists visiting Luang Prabang are changing their transit gateway from Thailand to Vietnam and Cambodia to avoid political unrest in Bangkok, reports said.
'Orwell house' may be long gone
Online Reporters, Published on 07/12/2013
» A campaign to preserve the house where George Orwell was said to have lived when he served in Burma may have hit a snag.
Crash black box located, Thai search team to stop work
Online Reporters, Published on 21/10/2013
» The flight recorder of the Lao Airlines plane that crashed into the Mekong River near Pakse airport in Champassak province on Oct 16 has been located, Sommat Phonsena, Lao Minister for Public Works and Transport, said on Monday.
Warning over Laos dam construction
Online Reporters, Published on 26/06/2013
» Work to construct the yet-to-be-approved Don Sahong hydropower dam project continues to progress, posing a major threat to the livelihoods of families living on the Mekong, despite the fact a consultation into the scheme has not been carried out, it has been warned.
Laos, Myanmar begin bridge
Online Reporters, Published on 18/02/2013
» Laos and Myanmar have begun the construction of the first bridge to link their countries, and expect to complete it in 2015.