Lao News Agency
Lao News Agency, known as “Khaosan Pathet Lao” , the official news agency of Laos, was established on 6 January 1968 in Viengsay, northern Houaphanh province, by the Neo Lao Haksat (Lao Patriotic Front). Initially staffed with only a dozen reporters and technicians, the agency served as a news provider for Pathet Lao radio and the Lao Haksat newspaper during the revolutionary period. KPL became the official national news agency after the Pathet Lao established the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on 2 December 1975. Operating primarily in Lao, English, and French, with headquarters in Vientiane, the state-owned organization maintains provincial branches nationwide and serves as the primary information source for domestic media outlets. The agency describes itself as dependent on government funding and operates within Laos’s single-party system under the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party.