VIENTIANE: Laos reaffirmed its commitment to promoting reproductive health and sustainable development at the 58th session of the Commission on Population and Development at New York in the United ...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Lao Statistics Bureau is researching to estimate the growth rate of the youth population from 2015-2035 as a valuable data to assist the country's socio-economic ...

VIENTIANE, July 23: A provincial celebration of World Population Day: “Towards demographic resilience: supporting individuals’ rights and choices”, was held by the Ministry of Planning and Investment ...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Lao government has set a goal to provide access to electricity for at least 98 percent of the population by the end of 2030, said a Lao official on Friday. At present, ...

A deceased Irrawaddy river dolphin was discovered near the Lao-Cambodian border, bringing the total Lao population down to just five individuals. Bangkok, Thailand, 7 April, 2015 – The discovery of a ...

Luang Prabang in northern Laos used tourism to become virtually free of poverty. But Laos is still one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia.

There are few more backward nations in the world than the 91,400-sq-mi. kingdom of Laos. Population figures in Laos are almost anybody’s guess (estimates run from 1,400,000 to 2,500,000), and some ...

United Nations data says the number of people in Laos living with HIV at the end of 2001 was about 1,500 or 0.05% of the population. The HIV rate among women working in the nascent sex industry in ...

Lao population is estimated to reach around 6.8 million people in 2015, according to National Steering Committee of Laos. The figure was released at the fourth Population and Housing Census held in ...