The Bank of the Lao PDR held a ceremony to announce senior leadership transfers and appointments, including the transfer of Bounkham Volachit from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to take up new duties at the central bank and his appointment as Secretary of the Bank’s Party Executive Committee. The announcements were made under decisions of the Party Central Committee’s Politburo and Secretariat and a Prime Ministerial decree, at an event chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Saleumxay Kommasith and attended by more than 100 participants. The programme also covered the appointment of a deputy secretary of the Bank’s Party Executive Committee and a deputy governor, alongside a review of the Bank’s work in the first half of 2025 and its plan for the second half of 2025 presented by Deputy Governor Arun Bounyong.