Tours to Laos for 25th SEA Games sold out

December 9, 2009 in Vietnam Travel
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The number of tours booked to Laos for the 25th SEA Games skyrocketed after Vietnam’s U23 football squad beat Malaysia and moved closer to the finals on Sunday, said travel companies.

Vietnamese fans travel to Laos to encourage the national U-23 football team at the 25th SEA Games. (Photo: SGGP)On the morning of December [...]

Giant ball about to roll to Laos to support U-23 Vietnam

November 22, 2009 in Vietnam Sports
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Football fans in the northern city of Hai Phong on Saturday rushed to sign on a huge ball created this July for a nationwide campaign organized to collect one million signatures to support U-23 Vietnam in December’s 25th Southeast Asian Games in Laos.
The composite ball, 6 meters in diameter and 1.2 tons in weight, received [...]

Vietnam helps build music school for Laos

November 19, 2009 in Vietnam Society
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Works started on Nov. 18 on the construction of the Laos National Music and Arts School in Vientiane , which is being built with non-refundable aid from the Vietnamese Government.
The project was under a bilateral agreement on economic, cultural and scientific and technological cooperation in the 2006-2010 period.
The school will be built in two phases. [...]

Laos beat Coal to third place

October 24, 2009 in Vietnam Sports
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Laos beat Coal to third place

QĐND – Friday, October 23, 2009, 21:14 (GMT+7)

Laos took third place in the International Women’s Football Tournament after beating Coal and Minerals 2-1 in Quang Ninh province’s Cua Ong Stadium on Oct. 22.
As the host, Coal and Minerals needed only a draw to fulfill their goal of being in [...]

Hundreds of Vietnamese to support national squad in Laos

October 21, 2009 in Vietnam Sports
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Hundreds of Vietnamese to support national squad in Laos

QĐND – Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 20:52 (GMT+7)

300 Vietnamese fans will visit Laos to support the national football team during their competition in the 25th SEA Games from December 8-14.
This was confirmed by the Vietnamese football fans club at a meeting in Hanoi on October 19.
Earlier [...]

RoK company funds road construction in Laos

December 4, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Vientiane (VNA) – A company from the Republic of Korea (RoK) has pledged to fund the construction of a road in Xanasomboun district, Champassak province of Laos. An agreement to this effect was signed in Champassak province last week between the Director of the provincial Department of Public Works and Transport, Dr Koung Souk-aloun, and [...]

Cambodia, Laos to finish border landmark planting in 2009

December 1, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodia and Laos have reached a consensus to complete their common border landmark planting in 2009. This was announced by Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister cum Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ho Nam Hong on November 28 after he attended the 5th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Development Triangle Summit in Vientiane, Laos. [...]

Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam intensify anti-drug stance

November 28, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam have signed a joint agreement to boost cooperation in controlling illegal drugs during their 8 th ministerial meeting in Vientiane, Laos. At the end of the meeting, which took place on November 23-26 and attracted the participation of the three countries’ ministers in charge of drugs prevention, [...]

Laos, Cambodia to boost investment cooperation

November 26, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Vientiane (VNA) – Laos and Cambodia have agreed to strengthen their friendship and increase bilateral cooperation between the two, particularly in investment relations in the near future. The Investment Protection Agreement governing this consensus was signed by Lao Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Minister of Foreign Affairs Thongloun Sisoulith and his Cambodian counterpart, Ho Nam Hong on November [...]

Laos open 6th NA session to debate new laws

November 25, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Vientiane (VNA) – The 6 th National Assembly of Laos opened its 6 th plenary session on November 24 in Vientiane.The NA session is expected to debate three new laws and amendments to a number of existing laws. The three new laws include decrees relating to border quarantine measures, publishing rights and management of state [...]