Story Archive
2021-06-12
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy vows to look into the use of defoliants in Laos during the Vietnam War.
2021-06-10
Villagers demand more in compensation, worry about life in a relocation village.
2021-06-10
Seizures of the drug in Southeast and East Asia swelled 19 percent last year – a record.
2021-06-07
All land is owned by the state, and compensation is determined by the government and developers, with no input from the people.
2021-06-02
Ethnic minority families can’t afford school and make kids toil in fields or watch over younger siblings.
2021-06-01
Mixed reactions greet the move, with some in Laos expressing support and others fearing possible arrest.
2021-05-24
Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among workers at foreign-owned banana farms in Laos.
2021-05-18
Women continue to be trafficked from Laos into China in spite of warnings against trusting promises of well-paid work across the border.
2021-05-17
Hungry Cambodians risk health to scrounge for scrap metal as two more succumb to coronavirus in Vietnam.
2021-05-14
Cambodia and Vietnam also struggle with spreading outbreaks, but Phnom Penh boasts two million people vaccinated.
2021-05-10
A lack of transparency in EDL’s bidding process has led to high project costs and unmanageable levels of interest and debt, sources say.
2021-05-03
The workers were paid by the plant's new owner, the Jiang Qe Co. Ltd., after talks with provincial labor authorities.
2021-04-26
Daily infections in Laos hit triple digits, while observers say Cambodians are starving during an extended lockdown.
2021-04-21
Residents of Vientiane will be under restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 for at least two weeks, while lockdowns are also in place in provinces bordering Thailand and along the Mekong River.
2021-04-19
Lod Thammavong, Somphone Pimmasone, and Soukane Chaitad had criticized the Lao government's human rights record in online postings made while working in Thailand, angering Lao authorities.
