Five years after the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos began operations, the cost of Mekong hydropower is becoming ever more ...

Northern Laos Luang Prabang province welcomed some 1583000 tourists in the first nine months of 2024 surpassing its target of 900000 set for this ...

Why take a high-speed train to northern Laos when you can take three days to do pretty much the same trip by boat—never knowing if you’ll actually get there? The post On a Trek to Northern Laos, Just ...

Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further ...

In 2016, a Chinese-driven banana boom in northern Laos left workers sickened and water sources polluted, which prompted the ...

Laos and France held a bilateral cooperation portfolio meeting chaired by Phonevanh Outhavong, Vice Minister of Planning and ...

Cooperation between Laos and France has led to 90 development projects worth over 300 million euros, according to a report ...

In late 2012, after years of denials, Laotian officials admitted that construction of the Thai-financed Xayaburi dam, on a remote stretch of the Mekong in northern Laos, was under way. New dams ...

The Lao government considers tourism as its top priority in revitalizing the economy. To cater to both domestic and international tourists, the Lao government is actively pushing for improvements in ...

Asia Society Northern California and the Japan Policy Research Institute hosted veteran journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern for a program on November 12 looking at the “secret” U.S. bombing of ...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Northern Laos' Luang Prabang province welcomed some 1,583,000 tourists in the first nine months of 2024, surpassing its target of 900,000 set for this year.