NA supports enactment of Data Protection Law
While National Assembly (NA) members spoke in support of enacting the Law on Data Protection, many expressed confusion as to whether this law differed from the Law on ICT and Law on Cyber Crime.
– Vientiane Times
Dispute with Laos persists
Laos and Cambodian soldiers remain “face to face” with each other in a disputed border region in Stung Treng province, a provincial military commander said yesterday, an assessment that appeared at odds with a recent statement by the Laos prime minister downplaying the standoff relayed by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
– The Phnom Penh Post
In Laos, it’s taking shape
s the sun beat down on Chinese workers driving bulldozers, four huge tractor-trailers rolled into a storage area here in Vang Vieng, a difficult three-hour drive over potholed roads from the capital of Laos, Vientiane. They each carried massive coils of steel wire.
– The Telegraph
Grilled pork franchise business set to expand to Laos, Cambodia
Preecha Klongchit spent Bt20,000 in 2011 to launch a grilled-pork franchise, Kim Soon Grilled Pork, and it now generates revenue of Bt240,000 a day.
– The Nation
ADB supports provision of more job opportunities
The Asian Development Bank is poised to deliver technical assistance of about US$1.5 million (12 billion kip) to help Laos expand employment opportunities.
– Vientiane Times
Fostering regional ties via YEN-D
Hatsavanh Haemany, chief executive of Shichida Child Academy in Laos, is eager to find Thai partners to invest in a 50-room hotel in Vang Vieng, a small popular town north of Vientiane, over in the next two years.
– Bangkok Post
Vang Vieng cleans up its act
Information, Culture and Tourism Office reports Vang Vieng attracted 183,000 visitors last year generating more than 70 billion kip (USD8.52 million) from its tourism industry.
– TTR Weekly
Going Green in Lao PDR: World Bank Group Leading by Example
The best way to lead is by example. The World Bank Group in Lao PDR has taken this to heart by leading green initiatives literally from the ground up.
– Miltech PR Distribution
Law amendment makes changes to role of prosecutors
The proposed amendment to the Law on People’s Prosecutor makes changes to more than half of the law, enlarging the responsibilities of prosecutors.
– Vientiane Times
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John Le Fevre
He has spent extensive periods of time working in Africa and throughout Southeast Asia, with stints in the Middle East, the USA, and England.
He has covered major world events including Operation Desert Shield/ Storm, the 1991 pillage in Zaire, the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the 1999 East Timor independence unrest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, and the 2009, 2010, and 2014 Bangkok political protests.
In 1995 he was a Walkley Award finalist, the highest awards in Australian journalism, for his coverage of the 1995 Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) Ebola outbreak.
Prior to AEC News Today he was the deputy editor and Thailand and Greater Mekong Sub-region editor for The Establishment Post, predecessor of Asean Today.
In the mid-80s and early 90s he owned JLF Promotions, the largest above and below the line marketing and PR firm servicing the high-technology industry in Australia. It was sold in 1995.
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