4:39 PM MYT VIENTIANE, Jan 10 (Vientiane Times/Asian News Network): Government sectors have been instructed to study mechanisms and ways to implement the policy of converting assets into capital to ensure more benefit to the nation.
This policy was one of 10 important topics discussed at a government meeting of cabinet members, the Vientiane mayor and provincial governors, which ended on Friday.
Chaired by Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, the meeting heard a report on a study of ways to convert state assets into capital, acknowledging that there was a lack of consensus among state agencies over the implementation of this policy in the past years, resulting in considerable losses to the nation.
They wanted to ensure nest boxes for Micronesia starlings were kept safe
To do this, they experimented with the use of large cylinders called baffles
But the snakes overcame them with a never-before-seen form of locomotion
The serpents wrap once around the cylinder, wriggling bits of the loop to move
A never-before-seen form of snake locomotion in which serpents use their bodies like a lasso s noose to climb wide poles has been discovered by experts in Guam.
US experts were trying to design snake-proof poles on which nesting boxes for Micronesia starlings could be placed without fear their eggs would be eaten.