The Latest Breaking News from Laos

Scot Marciel says Washington should focus on engaging with the region rather than trying to counter Chinese influence.

Front-line workers say methamphetamine pills are being sold for as little as $0.25 each.

A new species of lizard that finds itself at home—and very much camouflaged—on limestone rocks and jagged pinnacles was discovered in Laos.

Nipah virus reservoirs in SE Asia, India may cause cross-species transmission to humans. Early detection systems needed. Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka have bat populations exposed to Nipah. Lack of treatment options, need for antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines in clinical trials. Virological, immunological factors to…

The construction of a major new dam on the Mekong River in Laos is causing widespread concern. The small country of 7.5 million inhabitants aspires to become the leading low-carbon energy producer in southeast Asia. Since the 2000s, some 80 hydroelectric power plants have been built along the Mekong and…

The urgency for Southeast Asian nations to switch to clean energy to combat climate change is breathing new life into a 20-year-old plan for the region to share power

A human rights lawyer who was arrested in Laos has been deported back to China despite pleas from rights groups and United Nations experts for his release

Restaurants should have closed and analysts say they suspect their only purpose is to ‘launder money’.

Sixty-eight organisations sign letter amid fears Lu Siwei could be deported at request of Chinese authorities

A Chinese rights lawyer stripped of his license for taking on sensitive cases has been arrested in Laos while fleeing China

CHICAGO — There hasn’t been a single day since May that Samantha Oulavong is not thinking of the migrants who stay at the police station in her neighborhood in the South Loop. The children, she said, remind her of her younger self, when her parents made their way from Laos…