Story Archive
2017-02-03
Authorities nab Khonpasong and two of his family members as they pass through Khammuane province after attending a wedding.
2017-01-27
Citing pollution and worker concerns, Bokeo authorities take action against some Chinese producers.
2017-01-24
Meetings were only casual social contacts, Sommaly Thammavong says.
2017-01-24
Government officials say their program putting officials’ assets under the microscope is working.
2017-01-13
A demand for ransom leads to a sting, arrests and a rescue.
2017-01-06
State employees often do outside work on company time to make ends meet, sources say.
2017-01-04
Compensation and labor issues remain unsettled as work begins in earnest on the project.
2016-12-30
BMW and Mercedes Benz automobiles to get replaced with Toyotas.
2016-12-22
The shutdown isn’t the first for the dam as construction of the penstock may have made an ancient landslide unstable.
2016-12-16
Stopping the swaps may bring more accountability to a nation where land-grabs are a source of unrest.
2016-12-15
After four years the government is no closer to solving the land-development expert’s kidnapping.
2016-12-07
Enriched by involvement in logging, provincial governors protect smuggling across the border, sources say.
2016-12-05
A series of picks in the country’s national lottery raise new questions over the integrity of the game.
2016-12-01
A Vietnamese factory keeps belching smoke, and it’s unclear what can be done about it.
2016-11-17
Mekong River Commission plans to make a swift review of the Pak Beng dam project.
2016-11-14
But questions remain on how far the new law goes and whether it contains an exemption for ‘quality’ e-waste.
2016-11-10
The change will ensure that the press ‘propagates the guidelines and directions, and laws and social-economic development plans of the state.’
2016-11-09
After escaping forced labor on a fishing boat, a young Lao man remains stranded on an island in Indonesia.
2016-11-03
Delays of two to three months are common, as officials divert funds to make profitable business loans, sources say.
2016-11-01
Officials sent to boost the project refuse to answer on relocation, compensation plans.
2016-10-26
Despite Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith's attempts to cut corruption, it's life as usual at the border.
2016-10-24
Drawings lean heavily on numbers deemed unlucky or on popular numbers that are suddenly unavailable.
2016-10-20
Local villagers say the brewery in Vientiane is contaminating the air and water.
2016-10-13
Hundreds of nearby villagers complained of odor, smoke and runoff into farm fields.
2016-10-12
Scholarship students face higher fees as some teachers aren’t paid and Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith proposes to remove alcohol from schools.
2016-10-03
He and two other detainees will go to trial sometime this month, a relative says, but have no right to their own lawyers in what is being described as a 'political' case.
2016-10-03
Local official questions the maintenance of the footbridge that crosses the Xeng River.
2016-09-29
The government steps up its attempts to stop contraband timber, but the bottleggers make their own moves.
2016-09-26
The project is controversial in Laos, where many see China as its biggest beneficiary.
2016-09-21
About 7,000 students have had to resit the test after officials discovered some had cheated.
