Laos News

At the age of 13, Kommaly Chantavong, now 64, walked over 600 kms to Vientiane from her home in Lao's northern province of Huaphan.

Thai small and medium-sized enterprises are interested in opening branches and franchise businesses in Laos, to strengthen their export experience before targeting other countries.

ATTAPEU, Laos, Jul 6 - For decades, rubber plantations in the country's Mekong region have reaped huge profits for local businessmen.

Like many graduates from Mercer Island High School, Martin Momoda headed off to college and into the "real world" with big dreams about the future.

Poor sanitation, including hygiene, causes at least three million preventable diseases and 6,000 premature deaths in Laos annually.

Amanresorts has announced the opening of Amantaka in Luang Prabang, the former royal capital of Laos.

Laos is losing nearly $200 million a year, or 5.6 percent of its gross domestic product, due to poor sanitation and the resulting disease outbreaks that come from dirty water and a lack of toilets, the World Bank said Thursday.

A meeting and a reception were arranged in Vientiane on June 24 to mark the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Laos.

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Watching sunset over the swirling Mekong River from one of Luang Prabang's riverside cafes while sipping a therapeutic Beer Lao is hard to beat.

Laos wishes to welcome more Vietnamese investors as they have made active contributions to the countrya s development, Prime Minister Buasone Bouphavanh said Sunday while receiving Vietnam's Deputy PM Truong Vinh Trong.

A burgeoning rodent population is damaging crops and worsening the food security situation for thousands of families across northern Laos, but experts believe the introduction of barn owls could ease the problem.

A meeting and a film show took place at the Taedonggang Diplomatic Corps Club Tuesday to mark the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and Laos.

Lao health officials confirmed the country's second A/H1N1 influenza case, a 9-year-old American boy, Lao newspaper the Vientiane Times reported Tuesday.

Dear readers, can you divulge the names of your favourite foreign authors? How about titles of books you've fallen in love with recently? Samples of Lao works of fiction, a few of which have been translated into Thai over the past decades.

Just got off the sleeper train - for the second night in a row. Dog tired and dang this place is the hottest and stickiest yet! Must be 50 degrees in the shade and the humidity is about 1,000,000%, no exaggeration.

Communist Laos, buffeted by the global economic crisis, considers revising its foreign investment law to attract more companies to the country, radio reports said Monday.

On Saturday, July 18, 2009 LongHouse Reserve will host its annual Summer Gala at its 16-acre East Hampton compound.

A new drive to contain the spread of HIV/Aids in Laos is forcing officials to recognise a marginalised group - transgender men known as "katheoy". The BBC's Jill McGivering went to meet some of them in the capital, Vientiane.

An Australian man living in Laos has become that country's first confirmed swine flu case.