The Latest Breaking News from Laos

Ma Yang’s partner says Milwaukee is the only home the Hmong-American woman has known since arriving in the US at eight months old

Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, the 19-year-olds who died from methanol poisoning while on holiday in Laos, were “foremost in mind” for the campaign.

An American mother of five has been deported from Milwaukee to Laos—a country she has never set foot in—after serving time for a marijuana-related charge.

‘The United States sent me back to die,’ Ma Yang, a mother of five, said

As the UK, Australia and Denmark mount joint diplomatic push, grieving families fear Laos’ investigation into the suspected methanol poisonings won’t deliver justice

The global illicit drugs trade is estimated to be worth at least half a trillion US dollars each year. Drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin generate large revenues all along their supply chains, from where the products (and precursor materials) are grown or made – principally Colombia and Bolivia,…

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after an incident in Vang Vieng, Laos

Vietnam approved plans on Wednesday for a multi-billion-dollar railway with China, boosting links between the two communist countries.

“Two young Australian women died here. We need to know why, how this happened."