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 ...

KOKHONG, Laos (Reuters) - The first warning came at 4.00 p.m., one hour later the water started to flow through the village, and by late evening it was a torrent. Inpon Sivatan was at home on Monday ...

VIENTIANE/CHANGSHA, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Born in a Miao ethnic enclave in the central Chinese Province of Hunan, 69-year-old Shi Basan lived most her life in the shadow of peaks. While Shi's homeland is ...

In the image made from aerial video taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, villages are inundated with floodwaters from a collapsed dam in Attapeu province, southeastern Laos. The KPL news agency said ...

"Do Project," a Korean volunteer group comprised of young professionals, is on a mission to build a new school for the small village of Nong Bua in Savannakhet Province, Laos. The group visited the ...

Sunlabob Renewable Energy has completed work on a mini-grid that will supply electricity to a remote village in rural Laos. Sunlabob, which is based in Laos, claims the mini-grid will now provide ...

The first delivery of certified rattan with an FSC-label from Laos is expected in early summer this year. Significant progress has been made towards more sustainable rattan management and harvesting.

More than a dozen Christian families along with a pastor were forcibly evicted from a Buddhist-majority village in northwestern Laos allegedly over their conversion to Christianity recently, says a ...