Holdouts rejected initial offer in March 2019, accept higher amount 17 months later.
Zhang Zhan's family has been pressured by the authorities into firing her defense attorney.
Three years after company co-owners were jailed, no progress has been made on returning investors' funds.
Critics say the joint power grid company could represent a Chinese takeover.
Cooperation aims to spread warning system data more quickly.
Sangkhane Phachanthavong is being questioned for links to “an anti-government group” after airing complaints on Facebook.
Casino job-hunters from China, Myanmar, and Vietnam cross at remote, lightly guarded outposts.
Activists Sombath Somphone, Od Sayavong and others are remembered, but their cases have been ignored by communist authorities.
Lao residents say their government has not done routine spraying to keep mosquitoes at bay.
Od Sayavong disappeared in Bangkok on Aug. 26, 2019 after calling in public for democracy and human rights in Laos.
Xaysana Keopimpha was found guilty of smuggling millions of pills of methamphetamine into Thailand.
“I cannot find any jobs in my hometown, so I regret that I came home,” said a young Lao woman.
Compensation payments are 'too low' say villagers who remain stranded in their homes without land to farm.
Seventy years after the establishment of state media, Laos ranks near the bottom in press freedom.
Residents close to the border worry that Vietnamese migrants may enter Laos by avoiding border checkpoints, though.
Attracted by the Golden Triangle SEZ, hundreds are caught, tested and deported.
Employer says Lou Xiong walked off the job at a busy time. He says he was too tired to work past 7 pm.
The Mekong River Commission says early construction is allowed but “interesting.”
