Members of the Xayabouly Provincial Party Committee, district Party secretaries, and trainees at the Xayabouly Provincial Political and Administrative School attend a training session led by the Director General of the Training Department of the Commission for Information and Education of the Central Committee, Mr Khamkong Thammatheva. The training aimed to create understanding of Party policies and encourage all attendees to fulfil their duty to protect and build the nation, uphold the fine traditions of the Lao people of all ethnic groups, and actively put the Party’s policies into practice.

Secretary of the Khammuan Provincial Party Committee, Mr Xaysana Khotphouthone, and the province’s disaster management officials on Sunday give noodles, drinking water, canned fish and 175 million kip to families in Hinboun district, to help them recover from recent flooding.     --Photo Khammuan News

Minister of Agriculture and Environment Mr Linkham Douangsavanh and his officials on Friday check the function of sluice gates along the Mekong River and its tributaries to make sure water is flowing normally so that flooding does not occur.   --Photo Pasaxon

Students sit an entrance exam on Saturday for study in the Chinese language teacher training programme at the Confucius Institute at the National University of Laos. The university, in cooperation with Guangxi Minzu University of China, is offering the programme to train more Lao nationals as teachers of Chinese.