This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For days up there on the Plain of Jars I’d been trying to capture an image, find a metaphor, crystallize an idea that ...

Flash floods in the wake of Typhoon Yagi have brought destruction to northern Laos, inundating villages and farmland, putting ...

Lao rice production has been increasing significantly since the early 1990s. It was driven by area expansion and increase in yields. Rice production in Laos has more than doubled over 1991–2011, and ...

Chinese developers are constructing high-rise residential towers across the special economic zone that are geared to Chinese investors, unaffordable to the vast majority of Lao. Warning ...

(Supplied: Mulberries) "I'm from northern Laos which was an area that was very much affected," she said. "At that point, women really weren't allowed to study … there was a lot of disruption ...

This week, Laos, a landlocked country of less than seven million, is presiding over the first of two rounds of regional summitry as this year’s chair of the ten-member Association of Southeast ...

Landlocked Laos is comprised of thickly forested and mountainous terrain. The Mekong River forms a large part of the country's western border with Thailand. Most children in Laos live in rural areas, ...

VIENTIANE -- The purchasing power of people in Laos is fading rapidly amid soaring inflation, a weakening currency and other deteriorating macroeconomic conditions, with experts warning the ...

Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, yet, paradoxically, life revolves around water. Running the length of the mainly mountainous country is the mighty Mekong River, which floods ...

Economic instability and challenges in social services are threatening the gains Laos has made in poverty eradication, education, nutritional status, and other key human development indicators. The ...

Inflation in Laos continues its alarming upward trend, reaching 40.3 percent year-on-year in January, the government announced this week, the highest figure that the country has reported since 2000.

VIENTIANE: Laos and five other South-East Asian countries plan to introduce a Schengen-style single tourist visa to spur the development of tourism in the region. The five other countries are ...