Story Archive
2017-12-28
Lack of funds and available workers have slowed attempts to restore forest cover in the heavily logged country.
2017-12-22
Local authorities had forbidden Christians from neighboring villages to join each other for festivities, a local source says.
2017-12-21
Two valuable caches are uncovered in one week, suggesting the trade will be difficult to shut down.
2017-12-15
The ceremony marks the fifth anniversary of the abduction of Sombath Somphone.
2017-12-13
Signs posted at a major crossing warn would-be migrants against being lured into servitude by false promises.
2017-12-08
It has now been five years since the rural development expert vanished in police custody.
2017-11-30
Leth Xaiyaphone says officials from the province’s finance, forestry, and commerce departments are being investigated.
2017-11-22
Provincial task force committees estimate 4,411 families will be affected by the $6 billion mega-project.
2017-11-22
Officials sources say he did little other than enrich himself while in office.
2017-11-20
She had labored for hours in agony, and died on her way to the operating room when doctors finally relented.
2017-11-15
NGO officials said she ran away because she was unable to study and feared for her safety at the camp.
2017-11-08
Lao officials say that only the already existing Bokeo provincial airport will now be used.
2017-11-02
They had cut down rubber trees on farmland given by the government to a Vietnamese company.
2017-10-23
Local villagers have let their cattle graze on the airport grounds after Lao Airlines ceased operations there a year ago.
2017-09-27
Authorities brutally assault two men and a boy until they are bloody and unconscious, a relative of one of the detained says.