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Vientiane, June 28-30, 2021. The Department of Foreign Trade Policy (DFTP) of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) convened a ‘National Workshop on the State of Play of WTO New Initiatives’ at the MoIC with support from the USAID Laos Business Environment Project and the World Trade Organization. The Read more…

Vientiane Capital, 29 June 2021, the Department of Planning and Cooperation (DPC), Ministry of Industry and Commerce organized a virtual workshop to discuss the Global Gender Gap Report 2021 and the Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Lao women entrepreneurs under the support of Lao Competitiveness and Trade Project Read more…

Vientiane, 31 May 2021, the Department of Planning and Cooperation (DPC), Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MOIC), organized a virtual meeting to wrap-up the appraisal Mission for additional financing to Lao Competitiveness and Trade (LCT) Project. The Meeting was honorably chaired by H.E. Somchith Inthamith, Deputy Minister of Industry and Read more…

Draft Stakeholder engagement plan (SEP) and Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) are prepared as part of the process of preparing additional financing to the Lao Competitiveness and Trade Project. These are “live” documents which need to evolve with the project and the project implementation unit -NIU will regularly review Read more…