Definition of "coat of arms": an arrangement of bearings, usually depicted on and around a shield, that indicates ancestry and distinctions. In scarlet red and white, this coat of arms uses elements ...

Asia Society Northern California and the Japan Policy Research Institute hosted veteran journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern for a program on November 12 looking at the “secret” U.S. bombing of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human Rights Watch submits the following information regarding the human rights record of Laos since its 2020 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). It is not a complete review of the recommendations ...

The exhibition opened on Wednesday (Oct 23) at the Traditional Lao Silk Residence in Lao capital Vientiane, and will continue until early next year, Lao Economic Daily reported on Friday.

Top diplomats of South Korea and Laos held talks Wednesday to discuss various diplomatic concerns impacting regional security, particularly North Korea's troop deployment to Russia, the foreign ...

Laos is part of the EU’s preferential Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme, which grants tariff- and quota-free trade. Agricultural export products accounted for only 8 percent of total exports to ...

Vientiane, Laos - October 09, 2024 China firmly supports the building of the Community of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as ASEAN's central position in regional ...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone on Saturday attended here the inauguration ceremony of the China-aided Mahosot General Hospital ...