Twenty-six workers, including one Vietnamese from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai Joint-Stock Company, will be removed by helicopter from a flooded area this morning after the collapse of the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in the Lao province of Attapeu on Monday (July 23).
The South Korean partner in a Laos hydropower dam said on Wednesday it discovered the upper part of the structure had washed away 24 hours before it collapsed, engulfing villages.
Senior official meetings of the sixth Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS-6) and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Việt Nam Development Triangle Summit (CLV-10) are scheduled to open in Hà Nội today.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc chaired a rehearsal of activities of the sixth Greater Mekong Sub-region Summit (GMS-6) and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Việt Nam Development Triangle Summit (CLV-10) in Hà Nội yesterday.
Two Vietnamese workers were killed when the scaffolding they were standing on collapsed at a hydropower project in Champasak Province, Laos.
The central city of Đà Nẵng plans to relaunch a direct air route to Pakse, in the Champasak province of Laos, in a bid to boost investment, co-operation, and tourism in the years to come.
HCM City People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Thành Phong greeted visiting Lao Defence Minister Chansamone Channhalat yesterday.
The Party and State will facilitate Vietnamese investment and business in Laos, President Trần Đại Quang said during a working session with Vietnamese investors in Laos yesterday.
The Lao branch of the HCM City-based Saigon Thương Tín Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Sacombank Laos) inaugurated a branch today in Dao Heuang market – the largest trade centre in Pakse township, the Lao province of Champasak.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh and Laos Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith vowed to reinforce co-operation and solidarity between both ministries and nations during talks yesterday.