Story Archive
2018-02-05
Zhao Wei says accusations his network is trafficking in drugs, people and wildlife are "unreasonable" and "malicious."
2018-01-25
Authorities arrest two Laotians for wildlife smuggling after the endangered mammals are rescued.
2018-01-24
Sources say the two-month-old decree is stifling civil society work.
2018-01-19
The numbers held in captivity continue to grow despite a year-old government pledge to close the farms.
2018-01-12
Projects are planned across many sectors, with Laos's leaders counting on economic growth to support their legitimacy.
2018-01-10
The cross-border traffic in valuable timber continues despite government efforts to halt the trade, sources say.
2018-01-02
Two affected provinces have already approved the plans, with two other provinces and the capital still considering them.
2017-12-28
Lack of funds and available workers have slowed attempts to restore forest cover in the heavily logged country.
2017-12-22
Local authorities had forbidden Christians from neighboring villages to join each other for festivities, a local source says.
2017-12-21
Two valuable caches are uncovered in one week, suggesting the trade will be difficult to shut down.
2017-12-15
The ceremony marks the fifth anniversary of the abduction of Sombath Somphone.
2017-12-13
Signs posted at a major crossing warn would-be migrants against being lured into servitude by false promises.
2017-12-08
It has now been five years since the rural development expert vanished in police custody.
2017-11-30
Leth Xaiyaphone says officials from the province’s finance, forestry, and commerce departments are being investigated.
2017-11-22
Provincial task force committees estimate 4,411 families will be affected by the $6 billion mega-project.
2017-11-22
Officials sources say he did little other than enrich himself while in office.
2017-11-20
She had labored for hours in agony, and died on her way to the operating room when doctors finally relented.
2017-11-15
NGO officials said she ran away because she was unable to study and feared for her safety at the camp.
2017-11-08
Lao officials say that only the already existing Bokeo provincial airport will now be used.
2017-11-02
They had cut down rubber trees on farmland given by the government to a Vietnamese company.
2017-10-23
Local villagers have let their cattle graze on the airport grounds after Lao Airlines ceased operations there a year ago.
2017-09-27
Authorities brutally assault two men and a boy until they are bloody and unconscious, a relative of one of the detained says.
2017-09-20
Officials say legal action must be taken against the project developer Bothong Inter Group.
2017-09-12
More than 1,000 people came out to protest at PS Agriculture and Industry Promotion Import-Export Company over two days.
2017-08-30
Rural development expert Sombath Somphone has been unaccounted for since December 2012 and the Lao government has not been forthcoming about his case.
2017-08-23
Informal lotteries will be restricted or banned, and participation in foreign lotteries forbidden.
2017-08-14
The state-run company plans to turn the center into a for-profit tourist attraction in Sayaboury province.
2017-08-08
Investigators may be delaying to avoid implicating a provincial governor and his family.
2017-08-01
Witnesses said 10 men abducted Ko Tee from his house in Vientiane.
2017-08-01
Authorities apprehend 12 residents of Yeub village for cutting down trees on land granted to a Vietnamese rubber company.
