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31st March 2014 Vientiane, Laos

Philip Malone

by Philip Malone

Ambassador to Lao PDR

March 2014 Monthly Snapshot

March 2014 Follow our Embassy’s team through our activities during the past month! Visit to Vientiane Province Our Embassy team made first contact with government officials in Vientiane Province and visited the Nam Ngum 1 Hydropower Plant site. Lord Puttnam’s visit Lord David Puttnam, Oscar-winning film producer and the UK Prime Ministers Trade Envoy for […]

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3rd March 2014 Vientiane, Laos

Philip Malone

by Philip Malone

Ambassador to Lao PDR

February 2014 Monthly Snapshot

February 2014 Look what we have been up to at the Embassy this month! Diplomatic Excellence on a visit to Laos Matthew Rycroft, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Chief Operating Officer visited Vientiane at beginning of February  and introduced both us an Lao diplomats to the concept of #DiplomaticExcellence. Record numbers at our visa service A […]

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31st January 2014 Vientiane, Laos

Philip Malone

by Philip Malone

Ambassador to Lao PDR

January 2014 Monthly Snapshot

  January 2014 Look what we have been busy with at the Embassy this month! Happy New Year! The British Embassy Vientiane launched into the New Year with an ambitious agenda as an already established and settled diplomatic mission, full of plans for high-level work in 2014.  LGBT rights success! Anan Bouapha, UK in Laos […]

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14th November 2013 Vientiane, Laos

Philip Malone

by Philip Malone

Ambassador to Lao PDR

Laos through my eyes – Mike Boddington

This article is part of a series of guest blogs contributed by Brits who have lived and worked in Laos, or who have other interesting links to Laos. My love affair with South East Asia began in 1971, when I was fortunate enough to be appointed to a short-term consultancy with the United Nations Economic Commission for […]

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6th November 2013 Vientiane, Laos

Philip Malone

by Philip Malone

Ambassador to Lao PDR

The UK in Laos: One Year On

On 5 November, the British Embassy celebrates one year since its re-opening by Foreign Secretary William Hague, during his visit to Vientiane for the ASEM Summit. This ended a 27 year absence of a British diplomatic presence in Laos. Since re-opening, we have actively been working to raise the profile of the UK and its […]

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