Story Archive
2022-10-11
Authorities said the killings were likely related to business dealings gone sour.
2022-10-06
The mine will be permanently shut down if managers fail to protect worker safety, sources say.
2022-10-05
They were arbitrarily detained for three months for protesting against a new military camp in their village.
2022-10-03
Malaysian rights groups and family members call on Lao government to help free trapped workers.
2022-09-26
Qualified candidates are passed over to make room for relatives and friends of the country’s elites, sources say.
2022-09-22
Members of Laos’s LGBTQ+ and youth communities saw the decision as out of step with modern attitudes.
2022-09-20
Farmers who lost crops in Bokeo province’s Huai Xai district are calling on the government to provide aid.
2022-09-15
Drivers are charged high fees to enter the station even to deliver or pick up passengers.
2022-09-12
The government is concerned about the religion’s growing popularity with ethnic Hmong.
2022-09-10
Hundreds of people are displaced amid widespread damage in Oudomxay province.
2022-09-07
Prime Ministerial Decree 599 demands excess vehicles be returned in push to rein in corruption.
2022-08-31
Oudomxay province residents say they support development but want new plots to farm and enough money to restart.
2022-08-30
Supporters say the environmental, social and economic costs are preferable to hydropower.
2022-08-26
The husband and wife hired the young women as waitresses before trying to force them into prostitution.
2022-08-25
The land is now to be used for a cassava processing plant a local army unit has a stake in.
