Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh

Vientiane - Japan's Prince Akishino is to pay a private visit to Laos later this week to conduct scientific research on wild chickens, state media reports said Monday. Akishino, accompanied by his daughter Mako, is scheduled to arrive in Vientiane ...  

I received an e-mail a few weeks ago from a colleague in Laos regarding yet another deadly accident. On Feb. 22 a cluster bomb that the U.S. dropped on Laos more than four decades ago killed five children and severely injured another. The children, ages 10 to 14, were feeding their water buffalo in a rice field when they found the bomb. They were the latest victims among the more than 300 new casualties that occur every year – one-third...  

DUBLIN, March 19 (Compass Direct News) - Officials in Laos' Saravan Province yesterday visited 48 Christians expelled from Katin village and assured them that they had the legal right to embrace the faith of their choice, according to advocacy group ...  

ALOR SETAR: A Malaysian who was detained for 10 months in a Laotian jail has been given special permission to return home to visit the grave of his wife who passed away in Padang Besar on Thursday. Omar Atan, 59, a coffee-shop operator, was allowed ...  

in the Vietnam War, the Hmong had to flee their homes in Laos as refugees after the conflict. After several years spent in Thailand refugee camps, they began resettling in this country, including Northeastern Wisconsin, in the early 1980s.  

The Hmong are an Asian ethnic group who come mainly from Laos. Tens of thousands of Hmong people fled in the late 1970s after a Communist takeover of Laos, with the largest groups settling in Minnesota, Wisconsin and California. In St.  

A delegation of the National People's Congress (NPC) left here Saturday morning for a goodwill visit to Vietnam and Laos. The delegation, headed by Yan Junqi, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the NPC, China's top legislature, will also ...  

As often has been true in the case of 12 men accused of plotting an overthrow of the government in communist Laos, what was going on Monday outside Sacramento's federal courthouse was more scintillating than the proceedings in court.  

Vientiane, Laos - Lao Airlines cancelled flights on northern routes in Laos this week because of haze from agricultural burning, airline officials said Friday.The national carrier's flights between Vi...  

More than two months have passed since Thailand forcibly returned 4,500 Hmong refugees who had fled from Laos. For Hmong in Sacramento and elsewhere in the United States who have family there, the plight of these refugees has been excruciating, and frustrating.  

BANGKOK (AP) — A mega-dam in Laos criticized by environmental groups and financed in part by the World Bank has begun to generate electricity for sale to Thailand, its operators said Wednesday. The Nam Theun 2 dam began commercial export of 1,000 ...  

The largest infrastructure project in Laos, the Nam Theun 2 hydropower facility, has started commercial operations. Four turbines began supplying the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand with 1,000 megawatts of power on Monday. Sales of ...  

Hinh (Charming Television) ASEAN contest today in HCM City. Sixteen participants from Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and host country Viet Nam will model the traditional costumes of ASEAN countries  

A California congressman has joined human rights activists in voicing concern over the treatment of ethnic Hmong deported by Thailand late last year to their native Laos and now being confined in isolated villages inaccessible to international news media and rights groups.  

The Lao People's Democratic Republic, with a World Bank-estimated population of 6.3 million, is an authoritarian one-party state ruled by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). The most recent National Assembly (NA) election was held in 2006 ...