{"id":28060,"date":"2025-07-28T06:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28060\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:11:07","slug":"laos-merges-ministries-in-major-shakeup-as-economy-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28060\/","title":{"rendered":"Laos merges ministries in major shakeup as economy struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">VIENTIANE &#8212; In its largest restructuring in decades, Laos is merging major ministries to cut costs as one of Southeast Asia&#8217;s poorest nations\u00a0grapples with high inflation and debt payments, half of them to China.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">The Lao People&#8217;s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) announced the overhaul in a recent resolution signed by Lao President <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Spotlight\/The-Future-of-Asia\/The-Future-of-Asia-2025\/Laos-president-says-must-lure-more-countries-to-invest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thongloun Sisoulith<\/a>, also the party secretary general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIENTIANE &#8212; In its largest restructuring in decades, Laos is merging major ministries to cut costs as one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,17445,17448,17446,17447,17449,17450,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-28060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-laos","11":"tag-major","12":"tag-merges","13":"tag-ministries","14":"tag-shakeup","15":"tag-struggles","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}