{"id":171937,"date":"2022-04-14T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T00:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=171937"},"modified":"2022-04-14T08:27:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T00:27:01","slug":"lao-president-calls-on-his-people-to-overcome-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=171937","title":{"rendered":"Lao President Calls On His People To Overcome Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VIENTIANE, Apr 14 (NNN-KPL) &#8211; Lao President, Thongloun Sisoulith, delivered a Lao New Year message yesterday, encouraging the Lao people to overcome the various challenges facing the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have been able to maintain political stability and social order. The economy is in a phase of steady recovery and will continue to grow at a certain level,&#8221; said the president, in his message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, however, main challenges are facing Laos, including rising inflation, continued depreciation of the kip (Lao currency), and the increasing price of fuel and other consumer goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic activities and had a damaging effect on people&#8217;s incomes and quality of life, the president added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lao president said, he hopes that the new year will be a year of hope and the Lao people will keep striving to tackle the difficulties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lao New Year celebration this year falls on Apr 14 to 16.&#8211; NNN-KPL &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIENTIANE, Apr 14 (NNN-KPL) &#8211; Lao President, Thongloun Sisoulith, delivered a Lao New Year message yesterday, encouraging the Lao people to overcome the various challenges facing the nation. &#8220;We have been able to maintain political stability and social order. The economy is in a phase of steady recovery and will continue to grow at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":171940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,287,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171937"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171939,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171937\/revisions\/171939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}