Story Archive
2010-10-18
An intergovernmental study seeks a 10-year moratorium on the building of hydropower dams along the Mekong River.
2010-10-14
Thai police free 13 girls smuggled from Laos and forced into prostitution.
2010-07-28
But Lao officials face major obstacles.
2010-04-24
The world's most heavily bombed country is still strewn with unexploded ordnance, or UXO, from the Vietnam War.
2010-03-28
Lao Hmong forcibly repatriated from Thailand say they want to be resettled again.
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.
