Outspoken Laos lawmaker's election exit sparks rare dissent

When one of the few lawmakers willing to call out corruption in single-party Laos was left off the candidate list ahead of ...

Voting begins in Laos' parliamentary elections

VIENTIANE: Voting began at 7am local time on Sunday (Feb 22) for the election of members of the Lao National Assembly's 10th ...
AOL

Inside the Laos villages where people build homes, canoes, and tools out of unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam War

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 ...
East Asia Forum

Laos’s year of consolidation and strategic balancing

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

UXO clearance remains national priority, unlocking Laos' potential for growth

Unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance remains a national priority in Laos, with the government continuing its efforts to remove ...
The Diplomat

Can Laos’ Communist Party Recover From the Current Economic Crisis?

The ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party has grossly mishandled the economy, but there is no political alternative – at least for now. For the past three decades, the Lao People’s Revolutionary ...
The Diplomat

Laos’ Economic Woes Will Continue In 2024

Most mornings your columnist must scroll through feeds of the latest Southeast Asian news headlines. The feed on Laos is, to put it mildly, beginning to get tiresome. For how many months can you read ...