JICA Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, relevant officials and executives pay a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Sonexay ...

Thailand and Laos welcome the inauguration ceremony of the Fifth Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge (Bueng Kan–Bolikhamsai), which ...

In the message, Xi said that, as comrades and brothers, China is sincerely pleased with the progress Laos has made, as the ...

Mr Vongsack Serixay, along with guests and friends, enjoy lunch at the Soukvimarn Cuisine Lao Restaurant. Mr Vongsack Serixay ...

December 2025 . On the 13-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone , we, ...

The US dropped more than 270 million bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War. An estimated 30% of the bombs remain unexploded and are scattered across the country. Some villagers use those bombs as scrap ...

People didn't just survive, they recreated home where they could,” says Zanaman. His parents fled Laos as refugees, bringing their customs with them to Louisiana where they made a home.

Joseph Akaravong, a politically-active Lao exile, was stabbed several times by an unknown assailant in southwestern France on June 14. On June 14, an attempt was made on the life of the prominent ...

That means the country is due to repay $1.2bn a year on average for the rest of this decade. Although Fitch estimates that within this, China could defer about $500mn a year in payments, you can ...

Laos has a debt problem. By some estimates, the country’s public debt has swelled to more than $15.9 billion, exceeding its GDP. And ballooning debt is simply the most striking symptom of a wider, ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right, speaks with Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith in Pyongyang on Oct. 7, as the Lao official visited the North to attend celebrations marking the 80th anniversary ...

Laos has a debt problem. By some estimates, the country's public debt has swelled to more than $15.9 billion, exceeding its ...