Chief Editor Thonglo Duansawang introduced the relevant situation of the Vientiane Times and said that the newspaper is the first national English newspaper in Laos and belongs to the Foreign Language Publishing Bureau of the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, which mainly reports various news events occurring in Laos and abroad and propagates the relevant policies of the Lao Party and government. It was first published as a weekly magazine in 1994 and has been published many times