Story Archive
2010-03-01
A Lao official urges parents to invest in their children’s education.
2010-01-27
More Lao forestry officials are taking bribes in exchange for illegal logging concessions.
2010-01-14
The Thai prime minister says Hmong repatriated to Laos could still be resettled to third countries.
2010-01-13
The UN refugee agency wants to meet with ethnic Hmong sent back to Laos.
2010-01-07
Hmong abroad fear for relatives forcibly returned from Thailand to Laos.
2009-12-28
Thai authorities force members of an ethnic group to return to Laos where some may face persecution.
2009-11-13
Several hundred Lao people detained on their way to the capital weren’t dissidents, one man says.
2009-11-06
The Lao government dismisses reports of authorities detaining a group of pro-democracy protesters.
2009-11-04
A rising number of Lao girls are being lured into Thai brothels with the promise of work.
2009-11-03
Ten years after a rare student uprising, nine people are in custody as they prepare a demonstration.
2009-10-06
Rising temperatures are predicted to affect crop yields and water supplies, and will hit Southeast Asia hard.
2009-09-08
As the Lao president travels to China to seal closer economic ties, neighboring countries worry about Beijing's expanding influence.
2009-06-03
A Lao court spares the life a pregnant British woman convicted of drug smuggling.
2009-05-20
The sole aid group caring for Lao Hmong asylum-seekers in a Thai camp pulls out, citing pressure from a military that wants them repatriated.
2009-05-08
A pregnant British woman facing capital charges in Laos for drug-smuggling could now be moved out of the country.
