A year after her childhood friend died in a mass methanol poisoning incident in Laos, British traveller Bethany Clarke is still grappling with grief and a lack of answers. On November 12 last year, ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes Laos’s support of 189 recommendations of the 257 received during its fourth UPR Cycle, including recommendations to ratify the International Convention for the Protection ...

Laos’ ambition to become the “battery of Southeast Asia” has left the country awash with surplus electricity, but burdened by soaring debts from a decades-long dam-building spree. Now, in a bid to ...

The idea of an investigation took shape when I came across a familiar Vietnamese company, with a track record of deforestation in Laos, investing in durian farms. Media reports documenting how Chinese ...

Laos, on Monday (September 1, 2025), was accepted as a dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at the SCO summit conducted in the Chinese city of Tianjin. Since the dialogue ...

Laos’ Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone has seemingly become a hotbed of cybercrime on the Mekong River. Critics say Kings Romans Group, owner of the Kings Romans Casino across the river from ...

Food is a tangible and accessible way to understand and connect with different societies. One chef has led the movement to bring traditional food from her home country of Laos to diners across the ...

BEIJING - Laos has signed a US$1.45 billion (S$1.94 billion) clean energy deal with a Chinese power plant equipment manufacturer as the South-east Asian country furthers its push into clean power ...

A Chinese state-owned company is suing the national power utility of Laos for $555 million in unpaid fees from a hydropower project, according to an arbitration filing reviewed by Reuters. The case ...

Laotian Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone delivers a speech during the closing ceremony of the ASEAN Summit, in Vientiane, Laos, Oct. 11, 2024 (AP photo Dita Alangkara). Click to share on Twitter ...

Laos is straining under soaring inflation rates made worse by the stress of massive loans owed mostly to China for a series of megaprojects that have yet to pay off. The tiny landlocked nation of ...