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Ministry to strengthen employment opportunities
The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare is focusing on improving Lao labour management so that more people can find employment and contribute to the country’s socio-economic development.
At a national training workshop on employment services at the Settha Palace Hotel in Vientiane on Monday, Deputy Minister Laoly Faiphengyoua said the [...]

Luang Prabang receives gold award from travel magazine
The World Heritage town of Luang Prabang has won a ‘Top City Gold Award’ from England ’s leading travel magazine, Wanderlust.
The magazine placed Luang Prabang, an ancient city in the north of Laos and a UNESCO World Heritage site, in the top spot on its list of [...]

Sida supports environmental management project in Vientiane province
(KPL) The Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) has agreed recently to support the implementation of the strengthening environment management project in Vientiane province. The MoU of providing grant aid of SIDA to Vientiane province was held on 28 February, 2008 was held between Dr. Viengsavanh Duangsavanh, Head of [...]

Seeing Weir Sukollawat on the cover of Koosang Koosom Magazine made me think of Alexandra Bounxouei, and this could be her on the cover with Weir if she had accepted the role for Lakorn ‘Pood Mae Nam Kong’, which the part was offered to Alexandra but she turned it down because she decided to accept [...]

Yesterday, Brunei, Laos and Malaysia have joined Singapore in ratifying the Association of Southeast Asian Nations charter that provides for the creation of a human rights body.
This ASEAN Charter sprouts from three important earlier declarations in the Vientiane [...]

Congress recently passed the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, which President Bush signed on Feb. 13, 2008. If you normally file your income tax return, then there is nothing that you need to do, but for those that don’t normally file, especially our elders that receive social security payments, to be able to receive [...]

Several thousand local and overseas visitors travelled on long and winding roads from various parts of Laos to Paklai district in Xayaboury province over the weekend, to view the impressive sight of dozens of assembled pachyderms.
Xayaboury provincial authorities organised the festival in conjunction with the Lao National Tourism Administration (LNTA) and French organisation ElefantAsia in [...]

BangkokPost.com - Ice and snow cover the Hoang Lien Son Mountain and even Sa Pa town in northern Lao Cai province of Vietnam, with outdoor temperatures around 3 degrees below zero (Celsius), local media reported.

News agencies said it was the most severe frost on Hoang Lien Son Mountain in at least 40 years - [...]

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After two weeks of intense negotiations, Congress passed the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008. The plan will provide tax rebates of up to $600 for individuals and up to $1,200 for couples filing jointly, with an additional payment for families of $300 a child, and a minimum payment of $300 for individuals who pay [...]

Laoplanet.net is renewed, yet again. As you might have noticed, after the server meltdown of our hosting company we created a new Laoplanet in August 2007 based on Pligg software. Through this software, anyone could add content and link to content together with a voting / ranking ability.
However, there are three main reasons why we [...]

Whoever said that the uneducated don’t hold much power were wrong. They really determined the last two US elections. Have a look at the chart below depicting the last election in red (primarily Cons) and blue (primarily Dems) states.

Now compare that chart with the following illustration displaying the percentage of the population that underwent less [...]