text: January 17, 2022 - Laopdr News Gazette
  Scientists are struggling to monitor an active volcano that erupted off the South Pacific island of Tonga at the weekend, after the explosion destroyed its sea-level crater and drowned its mass, obscuring it from satellites.The eruption of Hunga-Tonga-…
  China on Monday canceled plans to sell tickets to the public for the Winter Olympics in Beijing, as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country reached its highest point since March 2020.Organizers said last year there would be no international spectat…
  Some 602 new Covid-19 cases and two new deaths attributed to Covid-19 have been reported nationwide over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 125,333 including 8,154 active cases and 497 deaths.The National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Preventi…
  The Advisory Committee of the project "Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers' rights and opportunities in the ASEAN region" met in Vientiane on Jan 14.The meeting was co-chaired by Deputy Director General of the Department of Skills Developmen…