Luang Prabang, in the north of Laos, is experiencing something of an economic boom. When the author of this article last visited in 2012, the city's central street and roadway, Sisavangvong Road, did ...

International institutions report GDP growth of 4.2 per cent, driven largely by mining and electricity exports. Headline ...

Cassie Souvannaxa and Tina Phommachan have only gotten to know each other recently, but they’ve become extremely close. They met while visiting their husbands at the Wyatt Detention Facility, in ...

For the new leadership team under re-elected General Secretary Thongloun Sisoulith, the core task is to translate this agenda ...

Laos had the feeling of a nation moving ever closer to an economic reckoning in 2023, even though the outcome is likely to be ambiguous and protracted. While according to official statistics, Laos ...

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 ...