Mayor of Xieng Khuang province, Laos, Bounton Chanthaphone has called for both domestic and foreign investors to develop tourism in the province to tap into the Plain of Jars, which was named a World Heritage site by UNESCO earlier this month.
The Plain of Jars, a megalithic archaeological landscape in Xiangkhoang Plateau, northeastern Laos, has been named as a new World Heritage site by UNESCO.
An arts programme was held at the Vietnam-Laos international cemetery in Anh Son district, central Nghe An province, on January 21 to mark 70 years of the two countries’ combat alliance.
A caravan tour with the theme “Journey through capitals of Vietnam and Laos” ended in Hanoi on March 30 after a week, heard a press conference held in Hanoi on March 30.
Laos welcomed 4.15 million foreign visitors in 2014, up 10 percent from
2013, according to statistics released by the Lao Ministry of
Information, Culture and Tourism.
Chairman of the Vietnam
Writers’ Association Huu Thinh and his Lao counterpart, Phuilavan,
discussed cooperation plan for 2013 during their talks in Vientiane on
December 25.
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