In Laos last week everything was quiet except the guns. In accordance with the 14-nation Geneva agreement last July, the Communist Pathet Lao has released five U.S. and one Filipino prisoner ...

As with every major disaster, the effects expose the incompatibility of human life with the profit system based on ...

Floods and landslides in Myanmar triggered by last week’s Typhoon Yagi and seasonal monsoon rains have claimed at least 226 ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login More than a quarter of century after the end of the war in 1975, the Lao leadership is still in search for a compelling nationalist ...

In the one-party state, the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) “dominates all aspects of politics and harshly restricts civil liberties,” Freedom House said. The nation does not have an ...

State-television in Myanmar says the death toll in the military-run country from flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon ...

Myanmar military chief has made an unusual request for foreign aid according to state media in response to fatal floods that ...

VIENTIANE, Laos--Southeast Asian foreign ministers and ... three days of talks expected to focus on the increasingly violent civil war in Myanmar, tensions in the South China Sea and other ...

In the shadow of Myanmar's brutal and bloody civil war, a rebel army with close ties ... in the country's east next to China, Laos and Thailand. Officially, the UWSA says it is only trying to ...

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The accounting of casualties has been slow, in part due to communication difficulties with the affected areas.