VIENTIANE: The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) will hold its 12th National Congress from Jan 6-8, electing a new ...

Editor's note: Ann Ostendorf of Cape Girardeau is taking a year to travel through England, Pakistan and Asia. This is one in an series of articles she is writing about her journey. aos is possibly the ...

In the message, Xi said that, as comrades and brothers, China is sincerely pleased with the progress Laos has made, as the ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- A lingering legacy of the Vietnam War emerged from the jungles of Laos on Wednesday, as hundreds of members of the Hmong hill tribe minority surrendered to the communist ...

Mr Vongsack Serixay, along with guests and friends, enjoy lunch at the Soukvimarn Cuisine Lao Restaurant. Mr Vongsack Serixay ...

JICA Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, relevant officials and executives pay a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Sonexay ...

People scrambled to safety as the ferry sank on the Mekong River, with a local woman and two children feared dead.

December 2025 . On the 13-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone , we, ...

The Mekong River has been a primary source of food, livelihood, and transportation in Laos since time began. Now a high-speed railway has arrived. What changes will it bring, and what will it take ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For days up there on the Plain of Jars I’d been trying to capture an image, find a metaphor, crystallize an idea that could ...

I’m standing before enough heavy weaponry to level a football stadium. The bombs are arranged on a raised concrete platform behind a building site. They sit, sunbaked and rusting, in informal rows ...