Economic instability and challenges in social services are threatening the gains Laos has made in poverty eradication, education, nutritional status, and other key human development indicators. The ...

Chinese developers are constructing high-rise residential towers across the special economic zone that are geared to Chinese investors, unaffordable to the vast majority of Lao. Warning ...

Landlocked Laos is comprised of thickly forested and mountainous terrain. The Mekong River forms a large part of the country's western border with Thailand. Most children in Laos live in rural areas, ...

VIENTIANE (Xinhua): The Lao government is considering a proposal to increase supporting allowances for enterprise employees in order to tackle the rising cost of living. Speaking at the government ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet says he's pulling his country out of a development agreement with neighboring Vietnam and ...

Among those arrested were 489 men and 282 women from 15 different nationalities, according to the outlet, which like all media in one-party communist Laos, operates under strict government control.

(Supplied: Mulberries) "I'm from northern Laos which was an area that was very much affected," she said. "At that point, women really weren't allowed to study … there was a lot of disruption ...

VIENTIANE: Zhao Shitong, assistant minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, led a delegation on a visit to Laos from Friday (Sept 13 ...

he Philippine government said on Friday it has begun flying home "distressed" Filipino workers from Laos following a cyber scam crackdown at a shady special economic zone near the country's border ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino workers who were rescued from a human trafficking ring in Laos are getting financial and other assistance from the government, the Department of Migrant Workers ...

Security forces in Laos have arrested nearly 800 people working for a cyber scam network in a shady "special economic zone" on the border with Myanmar and Thailand, local media reported.