President of the Lao Front for National Development, Prof. Dr Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune (front row, centre), joins President of the Central Buddhist Fellowship Organisation of Laos, the Most Venerable Maha Veth Masenai, and President of the Shenzhen Buddhist Association and Abbot of Hongfa temple, the Most Venerable Yin Shun, along with senior monks, Buddhist leaders and international delegates, for a group photo at the opening of the 11th Nanhai Buddhism Roundtable at the National Convention Centre in Vientiane on October 28.

The Ministry of Education and Sports, with support from the Australian government through the BEQUAL programme, runs the second Teacher Support Materials Writing Workshop in Vientiane from October 19-23. The workshop was organised to help teacher educators develop practical materials to support teachers and strengthen their capacity to create and improve teaching materials.

Lao and Vietnamese officials celebrate the handover and opening of a kitchen, an ethnic boarding school and a “friendship house” in the Laos-Vietnam border area in Sepon district, Savannakhet province, on October 24. The kitchen and friendship house will be used by poor and homeless families in the border area, with the latter valued at more than VND700 million, according to the Paxaxon Newspaper.

In a ceremony at the Lao-Singapore Cooperation Centre, Amb Ong Siew Gay presented the ASEAN Scholarship Award for Academic Year 2027 to the deserving student from Vientiane Capital. The scholarship recipient will pursue four years of studies in Singapore from Grade 9 to Grade 12. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Lao-Singapore Development Partnership.