While the project promises economic growth for Laos, it is also part of China's strategic Belt and Road Initiative aimed at extending the country's influence. Daniele Carminati, a visiting ...

As relations with the US worsens, China focuses its efforts on the Global South. A region representing about 85 percent of ...

There’s evidence that Chinese policymakers, who wield enormous influence over Laos, want to see the frauds reined in. In recent months, Laotian authorities, presumably at the Chinese government ...

Neither Myanmar’s junta nor Laos’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... limiting ASEAN’s ability to influence the situation. In an open letter, 237 organizations, consisting of human rights ...

"I think we can say with confidence if we have a very high debt, like in the case of Laos, to another country then that country bears influence politically and economically," he said. Mr Rajah ...

L ONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand one night in May 1975. At the time of their ...

Despite their vast lands, Cambodia and Laos are surprisingly empty. Factors like geography, history, and economics have kept these countries underpopulated, making them unique in the region.

It was a war that defined a generation with effects that reverberate today. We go to Laos were one man's search for closure takes him to the top of the country's tallest mountains. Correction ...

Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, according to ...