The Vientiane Times is a bilingual English and Lao newspaper, published daily in Vientiane, Laos. Established in 1994 as a weekly, the paper was started by an agency, Lao Press in Foreign Languages, under the Ministry of Information and Culture. It went to twice per week in 1996 and daily in 2004. It runs to 16 pages.
KhaosanPathetLao(Lao:ຂ່າວສານປະເທດລາວ,romanized:KhaosanPathetLao,KPL;French:Agencedepresselao),alsoknownastheLaoNewsAgencyinEnglish,istheofficialnewsagencyoftheLaosGovernmentandtherulingCommunistParty.ItwasstartedasthenewsagencyoftheLaoPeople'sRevolutionaryPartyon6January1968inViengsayandlaterbecametheofficialnewsagencyofLaosafterthecommunistsseizedpowerin[…]