The northern Laotian province of Luang Prabang plans to launch
its new radio and television station, built with Vietnam’s
assistance, this September.
The Vice Director
of the Luang Prabang Information and Culture Department, Somlith
Boupphapanya, said that the station, which was built earlier this year
at a cost of 57 billion VND funded by the Vietnamese Government,
includes a television station that covers seven districts in the
province and an AM radio station that covers 12 districts as well as
other northern provinces in the country.
According
to Somlith Boupphapanya, the province’s existing television station can
only cover four districts and its radio station covers just 85 percent
of the province.
Under Luang Prabang’s
socio-economic development plan for 2011 - 2015, its radio and
television station will also improve the quality of its news programmes
to meet increasing demands from the public./.