Staff at the Educational Research Institute under the Ministry and Education and Sports, representatives from the Australian Embassy to Laos, and officials from Luang Namtha province’s Education and Sports Department donate educational and sports equipment to primary school children following their support for the teaching of the Lao language in Luang Namtha province from April 27-29.           --Photo Education Science and Sport News

Officials from Vientiane’s Agriculture and Environment Department, the Sikhottabong district agriculture and environment office, and farmers in Donexingxou village last week discuss environmentally-friendly ways of growing onions. The crop is part of a cooperation project between the World Vegetable Centre in Taiwan, China, and the Clean Agriculture Centre of the Department of Agriculture under Laos’ Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. The initiative is funded by the Asian Development Bank in Laos, and is being rolled out in Vientiane and the provinces of Champasak and Xekong.         --Photo Pasaxon

This overloaded garbage truck is typical of the many criss-crossing Vientiane to collect household waste. But the bags of rubbish are not covered and the trucks inevitably leave a trail of refuse in their wake which litters roadsides and causes an unsightly mess.