A vendor makes food during Lao Food Festival 2020 in Vientiane, Laos, on Jan. 31, 2020. The Lao Food Festival 2020, held from Jan. 28 to 31, aimed to promote female entrepreneurs in the areas of food, ...

A recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal describes the genetic epidemiology and dynamics of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum responsible for malaria outbreaks in Attapeu ...

Houayheuang “Muay” Xayabouly, a Lao social media influencer who was arrested in September 2019 after criticizing Laos’s response to floods. Credit: Facebook/Houayheuang Xayabouly As anti-government ...

Synthetic drug production has exploded in Southeast Asia. The volume of methamphetamine seized in the region surged around sevenfold in the five years to 2019. Billions of dollars are being made each ...

On June 11, Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)—a country of 7 million in Southeast Asia—said it had temporarily prevailed over COVID-19. Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith said that his country ...

FILE - This Oct. 27, 2020, file photo shows a sign at a Starbucks Coffee store in south Seattle. Starbucks said Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, it plans to open an outlet in Laos as it expands its more than ...

The poor, small Southeast Asian country of Laos is set to cede majority control of its electric grid to a Chinese company, as it struggles to stave off a potential debt default, people with direct ...

Officials in the Lao People's Democratic Republic say they are ready to further lift lockdown restrictions. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia's only landlocked country have remained steady at ...

The way Vientiane sees it, the risks of investing in public works and infrastructure development, even if funded by increasingly problematic debt from China, are greater than the risks of not ...

Julia Vegas was killed 25 years ago and First Coast Crime Stoppers is trying to help her family get answers. FILE - This Oct. 27, 2020, file photo shows a sign at a Starbucks Coffee store in south ...