Lao 2000 Kip Note

When we were in Lao, my Minister took the entire delegation for dinner. After his PA had settled the bill, I saw he had an interesting modern looking note. I took a closer look at the 2000 Kip note. By the design  you can tell it was new. I did not have much time to ask or could find someone knowledgeable enough about the note and so I assumed that the 2000 Kip note was a new note and Lao did not have one before.  The 2000 Kip note looked like this:

 

When I arrived home in Brunei, I went through my collections and I found out that Lao had produced a 2000 Kip note and I had the older one at home: