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.