VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) — A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has killed at least six tourists and potentially injured ...

VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) — A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll ...

Vang Vieng, Laos — A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll in the ...

LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — The day begins in darkness, lit only by street lamps. As dawn breaks, a pale blue light reveals a quiet line of monks in orange robes moving through the streets of the Lao ...

Kevin Xiong, the president of the Yuba-Sutter Hmong American Association, said that he was born in the midst of the “secret war” in Laos, and his dad served in that conflict. For context, from the ...

Global and Laos-based rights groups have welcomed recommendations from a United Nations expert body that urged Laos to improve the situation of women’s rights and gender equality. The International ...

On the 12-year anniversary of the unresolved enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals worldwide, urge United ...

Newly ordained Bishop Anthony Adoun Hongsaphong of Vientiane has pledged to strengthen local Catholics and address the ongoing shortage of clergy in communist-ruled Laos. Hongsaphong was ordained as ...

VIENTIANE, Laos — President Barack Obama, declaring that it was time to pull America’s secret war in Laos from the shadows, told an audience here Tuesday that he stood with them in “acknowledging the ...

Chanthila Souvannarath ended up in a Lao jail after a judge temporarily blocked his removal from the country. The judge found ...