A vendor makes food during Lao Food Festival 2020 in Vientiane, Laos, on Jan. 31, 2020. The Lao Food Festival 2020, held from Jan. 28 to 31, aimed to promote female entrepreneurs in the areas of food, ...

A recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal describes the genetic epidemiology and dynamics of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum responsible for malaria outbreaks in Attapeu ...

Houayheuang “Muay” Xayabouly, a Lao social media influencer who was arrested in September 2019 after criticizing Laos’s response to floods. Credit: Facebook/Houayheuang Xayabouly As anti-government ...

On June 11, Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)—a country of 7 million in Southeast Asia—said it had temporarily prevailed over COVID-19. Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith said that his country ...

Synthetic drug production has exploded in Southeast Asia. The volume of methamphetamine seized in the region surged around sevenfold in the five years to 2019. Billions of dollars are being made each ...

FILE - This Oct. 27, 2020, file photo shows a sign at a Starbucks Coffee store in south Seattle. Starbucks said Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, it plans to open an outlet in Laos as it expands its more than ...

Officials in the Lao People's Democratic Republic say they are ready to further lift lockdown restrictions. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia's only landlocked country have remained steady at ...

The way Vientiane sees it, the risks of investing in public works and infrastructure development, even if funded by increasingly problematic debt from China, are greater than the risks of not ...

But while COVID-19 represents a clear and pronounced shock, credit ratings are not determined solely on the grounds of economic growth. ‘Inadequate’ foreign exchange reserves, a widening current ...

Centara, Thailand’s leading hospitality group led by Suthikiati Chirathivat, Chairman of the Board has inked a management MOU with Asia Investment, Development & Construction Sole Co., Ltd (AIDC), a ...

Thailand on Tuesday said it would allow undocumented migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar to work in the country ...