Story Archive
2016-05-27
Authorities announce the detention of the three following their forced disappearances earlier this year.
2016-05-24
Customers think there's more at work than just the heat wave and Electricite du Laos admits that it guesses at what to charge.
2016-05-24
Security details are watching towns and villages in a bid to prevent further attacks by ‘bandits’ and other criminals.
2016-05-23
An earlier agreed-on bid was too high, raising concerns over cost overruns and substandard work.
2016-05-20
Many can no longer make a living because the blaze at Dao Heuang market in Pakse destroyed their shops and merchandise.
2016-05-17
The moratorium requires officials to implement measures to control and inspect the felling of trees, transport of timber, and logging businesses.
2016-05-16
Authorities have arrested two, while a third has vanished for criticizing the government while they were in Thailand, friends and relatives say.
2016-05-11
The incident is the latest in a series of armed attacks that have killed or injured people traveling along roads in central Laos.
2016-05-06
Abuse of the herbicide in Xiangkhouang province is raising health and environmental concerns.
2016-05-05
Even as the El Nino-fueled water woes grow, government forecasters predict more tropical storms.
2016-04-26
But corruption and human rights issues still threaten to hold the nation back.
2016-04-21
A witness says police and military officers brutally beat the men when they apprehended them.
2016-04-20
Rights groups say a regulation that requires foreign journalists to submit their reports to the government for vetting hasn’t helped the situation.
2016-04-14
One man’s death is blamed on chemicals used to boost production as Bokeo province suspends new land concessions for bananas.
2016-04-07
Locals say electronics recycling plant in Vientiane’s Special Economic Zone is dumping waste water into the neighborhood.
2016-04-06
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species suspends Laos trade in the monkeys that are used in research worldwide.
2016-03-24
The incident is the latest in a series of armed assaults on vehicles in the northern part of the country.
2016-03-23
Many cast votes on March 20 even though they knew the candidates had been approved in advance by the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party.
2016-03-10
Police seize slot machines in Luang Namtha province, but locals question government's commitment to stop illicit gaming.
2016-03-03
Construction of Nam Ngum 3 dam foments unrest as local people fear relocation and another bus shooting occurs on Route 13.
2016-02-29
Questions on human rights arise as the small country takes its place at the head of the 10-nation organization.
2016-02-26
Single-party rule brings little interest in the upcoming selection of the national assembly and provincial councils.
2016-02-24
Major General Thongloy Silivong will bring peace to the region rocked by recent violence through a political, not hard-line, strategy, observer says.
2016-02-16
Expelled Swiss NGO expert urges donors to grasp how repression in Laos stymies development.
2016-02-09
Some laborers are forced to work at gunpoint as hazards pile up from agricultural chemicals and unsanitary housing.
2016-02-04
Polar vortex threatens to push another blast of freezing temperatures into the tropical nation
2016-02-03
The government says it is working on solutions that may include reducing or canceling interest payments and lengthening repayment plans.
2016-01-28
Third blast in a month raises the stakes as Laos begin to wonder who is to blame for the rising violence that the government often blames on 'bandits.'
2016-01-22
New slate faces economic crises, rampant corruption and raises some uncertainty on Laos-China railway project
2016-01-20
One passenger injured as evasive moves by driver protects bus traveling in Vientiane Province.
