A court in Laos found a pregnant British woman guilty of trafficking heroin and sentenced her to life in prison Wednesday, a court official said. The life sentence for 20-year-old Samantha Orobator ...

VIENTIANE, Laos — Phongsavath Souliyalat was walking home from school in his tiny village of Hin Hub, a few hours north of the capital of Vientiane, when a friend found a metal ball on the ground. "We ...

LUANG PRABANG, LAOS (dpa) – “Sawadi!” comes the welcoming cry from a house in Luang Prabang, in northern Laos. A group of young girls – five in all – rushes out out of the house, their hands stretched ...

VIENTIANE, LAOS — A court in Laos found a pregnant British woman guilty of trafficking heroin and sentenced her Wednesday to life in prison, a court official said. The sentencing of 20-year-old ...

Slip into the slow pace of life in Laos, where a new Mekong cruise follows the river’s course past the pagoda-studded world ...

Lao Tzu (also known as Laozi) was one of the most influential philosophers in Chinese history. He's also the author of the Tao Te Ching, a foundational text of Taoism—so it's no wonder we have so many ...

What's it like to hear stories about your parents' home country and try to learn its traditions and language without ever having set foot there? Tackling questions of identity is ever so complicated ...

In the cozy dim-lit townhome of Mr. Phouxay and Mrs. Keo Phathavong, it’s surrounded by mismatched colors of decorative pieces from the 1980s and green house plants hovering over the windows for ...

LUANG PRABANG, Laos — At first it sounds like thunder. Then I recognize the beat of a drum and the hollow ring of a gong. It’s 4 a.m. and the neighbors across the street, the Buddhist monks of Wat ...

A Milwaukee woman who was deported to Laos by the Trump administration earlier this month is deeply “shaken” by the prospect of spending more than a decade away from her partner and five children back ...

Mattie Do never intended on becoming Laos’s first female filmmaker. In 2010, the former cosmetologist and ballet school director moved to the country’s capital of Vientiane to care for her widower ...