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Lao National Television was established and began broadcasting television programs on December 1, 1983. At that time, the television station carried out pilot broadcasts twice a week, and later gradually increased the broadcast time.
In 2020, Reporters Without Borders ranked Laos 172 out of 179 on its annual Press Freedom Index, behind countries such as Cuba and Iran. [ 1] The Laotian government exerts almost total control over the press. Nearly all media organizations in Laos are government-owned and some Laotian journalists are party members attached to the government.
This is a list of newspapers in Laos. Pasaxon (Lao) Pathet Lao (Lao) Le Rénovateur (French) Vientiane Mai (Lao) Vientiane Times (English) Laotian Times; See also
Inspira Media. Inspira TV (covering Bandung and Jakarta) Jawa Pos Group. Jawa Pos Multimedia. JPM TV (covering Jakarta and Banten) JTV (covering East Java) Jawa Pos TV (covering Java (especially in Surabaya, Madiun, Jakarta, Semarang, Cianjur, and Bandung), and also Bali) STTV. Emtek (through Surya Citra Media)
Website. www .vientianetimes .org .la. The Vientiane Times is a bilingual English and Lao newspaper, published daily in Vientiane, Laos. Established in 1994 as a weekly, the paper was started by an agency, Lao Press in Foreign Languages, under the Ministry of Information and Culture. [1] It went to twice per week in 1996 and daily in 2004. [1]
The National University of Laos is the Lao state's public university. As a low-income country, Laos faces a brain-drain problem as many educated people migrate to developed countries. It is estimated that about 37% of educated Laotians live outside Laos. [152] Laos was ranked 110th in the Global Innovation Index in 2023. [153] [154]
The Lao people are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia. They primarily speak the Lao language, which belongs to the Kra–Dai language family. Lao people constitute the majority ethnic group of Laos, comprising 53.2% of the country's total population. They are also found in significant numbers in northeastern Thailand, particularly in ...
It was started as the news agency of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party on 6 January 1968 in Viengsay and later became the official news agency of Laos after the communists seized power in 1976. [1] Its current General Director is Khampheuy Philapha. [2] [3]