Domestic waste is collected on a weekly basis in Vientiane. The service costs 30,000 kips ($3.50 USD) per month.

Thank you very much for posting these Adminstrator.  Very useful information about Vientiane and by which I would to know more about.

Let's say I have a house in Vientiane (middle class), I definitely have to pay for garbage service, electricity, telephone satellite, water and property tax.  Can you give me a ball park of monthly charges on these if you would know?

Khop jai der

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 19^th Mar, 2009 at 3:10am:

Yes, a few dollars a month is nothing worth yelling and screaming about.

Electricity bills vary between different household use and size. But on average for Vientiane, around $20 US a month is considered reasonable.

If all of your bills total $30 - $40 US a month, that's not too expensive.

That's quite a alot of expenses. Homes in Laos are not equipped with natural gas. If you want gas, you need to buy the stove and gas tank at the shops.

Tiger Woods always has money in the bank to pay his bills, he is making more from endorsement than he does playing golf.

Larb Dip wrote on 18^th Mar, 2011 at 8:48am:

Most of the workers is from Vietnam and China and Lao don't want to do this kind of work.....

Tee wrote on 19^th Mar, 2011 at 4:52am:


How do you know this, mate?

I thought any jobs in Laos would be snapped up double-quick, especially  BY ethnic Lao.

llX wrote on 19^th Mar, 2011 at 3:57pm:


Why isn't the government doing anything about these '250,000' aliens, then?
Why are they taking all our jobs?

Maybe the 'Chinese' and 'Vietnamese' are the problems and it's them that needs to go. The illegal ones anyway.