As the train sped through the Lao forest at 160 kilometers per hour, I had a flashback to last February, when I traveled from Vientiane to the Chinese border to document the developments at the Boten ...

BEIJINGBEIJING — Laos, a nation of 7 million people wedged between China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links China’s poor southwest to foreign markets but ...

BEIJING – After a blessing by Buddhist monks, Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on Friday rode the first run of a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links isolated, mountainous Laos with ...

The government reportedly plans on employing the new revenue stream's profits on "priority" programs. Laos is reportedly expected to earn approximately $190 million in 2022 from bitcoin mining ...

China’s intense railway expansion has marked a new milestone with the official opening of a new track that pushes beyond its own frontiers into its southern neighbor Laos. The track, China’s first ...

After gambling with “high risk” levels of debt distress for more than a decade, Laos has fallen into a debt crisis (and possibly a trap). The latest data indicate that Laos’ total public and publicly ...

(Sydney) – The Australian government should press the Lao government to take concrete steps to improve its poor human rights record at the seventh Australia-Laos Human Rights Dialogue on December 9, ...

Taking advantage of its mountainous topography and the Mekong River flowing through the country, Laos has extensively developed its hydropower capacity. As of 2021, the country has 78 operational ...

Lastly, we urge the Lao government to ratify without further delay the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which Laos signed in September 2008, and ...