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Russo–Ukrainian war. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. The Russian Foreign Ministry reports that at least 56 Russian civilians were killed and 266 more were wounded by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk Oblast, which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denies as Russian propaganda. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents.
CIA activities in Laos started in the 1950s. In 1959, U.S. Special Operations Forces (Military and CIA) began to train some Laotian soldiers in unconventional warfare techniques as early as the fall of 1959 under the code name "Erawan". [1] Under this code name, General Vang Pao, who served the royal Lao family, recruited and trained his Hmong ...
Rights groups and activists protested outside the Laos Embassy in London on Monday to demand the release of a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who was arrested in Laos last month after ...
A human rights lawyer who was arrested in neighboring Laos has been deported back to China, his attorney said, despite pleas from rights groups and United Nations experts for his release. Lu Siwei ...
Website. www.bol.gov.la. The Bank of the Lao P.D.R. (Lao: ທະນາຄານ ແຫ່ງ ສ. ປ. ປ. ລາວ) is the central bank of Laos. It is also the bank of last resort, controlling the money supply, managing the country's reserves, and supervising the commercial banks operating in Laos. The bank is managed by an executive board ...
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]
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
The politics of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (commonly known as Laos) takes place in the framework of a one-party parliamentary socialist republic. [1] The only legal political party is the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). [2] The head of state is President Thongloun Sisoulith, who is also the LPRP general secretary, making him ...