BEIJING – After a blessing by Buddhist monks, Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on Friday rode the first run of a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links isolated, mountainous Laos with ...

The Laos-China Railway (LCR) marked four years of operation on December 3, highlighting its transformative role in turning ...

BEIJING (AP) — Laos, a nation of 7 million people wedged between China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links China’s poor southwest to foreign markets but ...

The government reportedly plans on employing the new revenue stream's profits on "priority" programs. Laos is reportedly expected to earn approximately $190 million in 2022 from bitcoin mining ...

China’s intense railway expansion has marked a new milestone with the official opening of a new track that pushes beyond its own frontiers into its southern neighbor Laos. The track, China’s first ...

A monument to the Lao communist revolution outside a museum in Vientiane. Credit: Sebastian Strangio In early 2016, a crevice of hope was opened following the news that the newly-appointed prime ...

As the train sped through the Lao forest at 160 kilometers per hour, I had a flashback to last February, when I traveled from Vientiane to the Chinese border to document the developments at the Boten ...

BANGKOK — The impoverished nation of Laos, fueled by abundant hydroelectric power from the Mekong River, is shrugging off U.S. warnings of disastrous environmental problems and stepping in after China ...

(Sydney) – The Australian government should press the Lao government to take concrete steps to improve its poor human rights record at the seventh Australia-Laos Human Rights Dialogue on December 9, ...

Civil society groups in Southeast Asia are pushing back against the Laos government’s recent directives to monitor social media platforms and enforce internet registration. On May 20, the Ministry of ...

Lastly, we urge the Lao government to ratify without further delay the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which Laos signed in September 2008, and ...