pay to read news in Laos

Date: Jan 5, 2009

pay to read news in Laos

Date: Jan 5, 2009

I think about this matter it's quite good because the readers want to read the news is not free style , why have they registered before i always see the vientianetimes website but can not read the news. have you read the thai news website it is not necessary to register ? yyyyy
hav u get the reason ?

Date: Jan 5, 2009

http://www.vientianetimes.org.la/

This medea is a state controled media. They earn money from Lao government already, why they don't want to provide free information to people who want to know about Laos. I also wonder?

Thai medea, for example Bangkokpost and Nation News are private media, they still provide free reading for all people.

It seems we Lao people doing things are different with other people on earth, isn't it right?

Please take it for consideration if you can.

Regards,
TSP

DEATHEP · Senior Member

I wish somebody with a subscription could just post all the news here.

tinko · Guru

and also need translated version when article written in non-english. LOL

-- Edited by tinko at 05:47, 2009-01-05

Date: Jan 5, 2009

I've posted this one before. In my opinion, I think it's ridiculous ! What are they trying to do? To make some money? We are in the 21st century now. I believe 99.9% of the news website are free to access and to read all over world wide web.
Vientianetimes officials need to wake up! You need to open up every articles, old or new to all the readers.
How about do it now to commence the celebration of our beautiful city of Vientiane for 500 years anniversary (Am I right?, please correct me if I'm wrong).

Date: Jan 5, 2009

I see you guys complaint about this 2 years ago.
Have you seen any thing changed?
No right.
Better spend some of your money and subscribe now

khonthakek · Guru

Anonymous wrote:

I've posted this one before. In my opinion, I think it's ridiculous ! What are they trying to do? To make some money? We are in the 21st century now. I believe 99.9% of the news website are free to access and to read all over world wide web.
Vientianetimes officials need to wake up! You need to open up every articles, old or new to all the readers.
How about do it now to commence the celebration of our beautiful city of Vientiane for 500 years anniversary (Am I right?, please correct me if I'm wrong).

you are 100% right, I Think the vientiane think they are no1 in Laos which able to provide update news about laos in english and i think there some english speaker jounalisms work for vientianetime.. but i believe it won't be sooooooo long for this business, because no one pay for it...by the way.. please vientiane's consider about it,..

tinko · Guru

“
Anonymous wrote: I see you guys complaint about this 2 years ago.Have you seen any thing changed?No right.Better spend some of your money and subscribe now
”

but we believe in the practice of protest to affect changes.
in this case, free access to Vientianetimes. LOL

you might say,
"come on guys, just folk out a few bucks and help out."
"dont be so cheap."

then i'd say, well, it might be pennies to you but
it's really about the principle. LOL

-- Edited by tinko at 06:42, 2009-01-05

-- Edited by tinko at 06:43, 2009-01-05

paris_vientiane · Guru

it's not shocking to pay to get some news.... but the price they ask is dramaticaly too high!

Who will pay for that?

Lan_Xang · Guru

The quality of the writing and the news which they covered are not worth the fee they want to charge the subscriber.

Date: Jan 5, 2009

I don't want to read news in Vientianetimes.gov website because it isn't worth it to read, let alone to subscribe the website. Why I have to pay to read propadandadized news?

Date: Jan 5, 2009

ok you guy, vientiane times. is not gov provide finance . they support themself . the gov only lead them and have the right to control they behave . not finance. For those who say that not want to read vte times. why worrie about that. they are many sources. For those who want to read .., just think that to support them to survive. you guy go to the club pay alot of money just make you happy 1 time. can you skip 1 time the money u guy go to club to suppot our lao bro.?

please think about that.

Date: Jan 5, 2009

i think we should to send our complian to the address below:

vientianetime boss is probably going to consider about the reader's complain

Date: Jan 5, 2009

Why don't you send your complaint, not complain to Vientianetimes.org website?

Date: Jan 5, 2009

I did send email to Vientianetimes way back, asking about how many subscribers they have,and also some other questions, but no reply.

tinko · Guru

the subscription per year is $100 US Dollars.

there are about seventy-seven thousand (77K) hits for the last 3 months.

most of the recent articles you've seen reposted from other people here are mostly if not all written by writers who have lao names.

the articles are short and superficial, nevertheless, are interesting and refreshing.
at the very least, they keep us entertained. LOL. confuse

tinko · Guru

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-- Edited by tinko at 05:11, 2009-01-06

Laos2beLaos · Senior Member

By doing this, people will not pay for it and they will not read that. They (the papers co.) will lose the readers. The readers will find the free site to read. I am so disappointed when I know I have to pay to read the news because I like to read, I like to know what's going on.