China and Lao PDR have stepped up their cooperation on agricultural science and technology, with 2025 marking a year of concrete progress from laboratory planning to field-level impact. At the heart ...

VIENTIANE, July 13, 2016 — The Ministry of Finance today signed a $30 million agreement with the World Bank aimed at continuing to finance Lao PDR’s Poverty Reduction Fund (PRF). The signing was ...

New World Bank support aims to scale up results to date and to benefit more poor communities across Lao PDR. Since 2003, the Poverty Reduction Fund has been supporting the improvement of rural poor’s ...

(KPL News) The development of the sustainable use of natural forest resources by Lao rural communities, particularly non-timber forest products (NTFP), has enormous potential to eradicate poverty and ...

Pesticides are displayed in a Southeast Asian market. Farmers pick watermelons in northern Xieng Khouang province, Laos. Photos: Courtesy of Andrew Bartlett. A recent report from the Lao Rural Upland ...

A cross-sectional study was undertaken to assess the nutritional status of children aged 3–15 y in remote villages of Lao PDR. Study sites were chosen from two provinces: Luang namtha (north) and ...

Kham lives in Hatsaphei village, Ngoi district, Luang Prabang province. He plays the role as a friend and mother to take care of his younger brother when his parents are working in the fields, often ...

VIENTIANE (Xinhua): Laos and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have reaffirmed their long-term commitment to improving rural livelihoods, in alignment with Laos' Ninth ...

The wife of missing Lao development expert Sombath Somphone on Tuesday marked eight years since his disappearance with no information on the case from the communist government in Vientiane whose ...

VIENTIANE: The mid-term review of a Korean-Lao Integrated Rural Development Project in Champassak, Xekong, and Saravan provinces highlighted significant progress, as raised at an event in Champassak ...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The primary school dropout rates in Laos increased in more than 70 districts, mostly in rural areas, local daily Vientiane Times reported on Monday. Overall, primary ...

Take a tour around Laos, a scenic country of rolling hills and jagged mountains, and you will encounter photogenic scenes frequently featured in tourist brochures about the country: villagers working ...