Vientiane administration bans travel within and to and from the capital

September 18, 2021lwadminComments Off

Vientiane administration has imposed ban on all travels to and from Vientiane and within four inner districts of the capital city namely Chanthaboury, Sisattanak, Sikhottabong and Xaysettha between Sep 19 and 30, 2021.

Travels to particular areas in Xaythany, Hadxayfong and Naxaythong districts are also prohibited.

The move came after Vientiane witnessed a rocket surge in community cases on Saturday.

The National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control announced on the same day that 467 new cases had been recorded nationwide over the past 24 hours including 384 locally transmitted cases with 265 reported in Vientiane, the highest daily community infection ever recorded in the capital city.

More than 90 per cent of the local cases in Vientiane linked to a garment factory in Nongtha Neua, Chanthaboury district. Up to 260 out of more than 1,000 workers employed by the factory were confirmed positive to Covid-19 today.

As of Sep 18, 2021, the Lao PDR has recorded a total of 18,814 confirmed cases of Covid-19 including 3,665 active cases and 16 deaths.

Source: Lao News Agency

Vietnam’s Party leader welcomes visiting chairman of Lao parliament – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong received Chairman of the National Assembly of Laos (NA) Xaysomphone Phomvihane, who is paying an official visit to Vietnam, in Hanoi, Vietnam on Dec 7. The Lao leader thanked Vietnam for its enormous, timely, and effective support and assistance for his country. He affirmed that the Lao NA will keep close coordination with its Vietnamese counterpart to effectively carry out the agreements reached between leaders of the two Parties, countries, and parliaments. Welcoming his guest, Party General Secretary Trong described the visit as a demonstration of the close and special ties between Vietnam and Laos. He highly valued the important role of the two parliaments as well as their cooperation outcomes, asking the two NAs and their committees to enhance cooperation and information and experience sharing; organise workshops on law making, supervision, and decision of major issues; increase coordination in monitoring and promoting the governments, ministries, sectors, and localities’ implementation of signed programmes and projects; and keep supporting each other at multilateral and inter-parliamentary forums. The host leader also asked the two sides to work together to hold activities celebrating the Laos – Vietnam Solidarity and Friendship Year in 2022. At the meeting, both host and guest expressed their delight that the special bilateral relations, set up by late Presidents Ho Chi Minh, Kaysone Phomvihane, and Souphanouvong and nurtured by generations of the countries’ Party and State leaders, have been unceasingly solidified and developing in a substantive and effective manner in all fields, generating practical benefits for the two peoples. They also committed all-out efforts to maintain, nurture, and pass down the sound Laos – Vietnam relations to future generations. The two leaders shared the view that their countries’ special ties are a priceless common asset of the two Parties and peoples, a vital relationship, an important resource for the national development and safeguarding in each nation, and also an active contribution to regional and global peace, stability, cooperation, and development. On December 7 morning, Chairman Xaysomphone Phomvihane, his spouse, and the high-ranking delegation of the Lao NA laid wreaths and paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi. Source: Lao News Agency

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– General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong received Chairman of the National Assembly of Laos (NA) Xaysomphone Phomvihane, who is paying an official visit to Vietnam, in Hanoi, Vietnam on Dec 7.The Lao lead…