On Sunday, a general election will take place in Laos, a small, secretive, land-locked country in Southeast Asia. You’re unlikely to have heard much about it, however. That’s because elections ...

Flash floods in the wake of Typhoon Yagi have brought destruction to northern Laos, inundating villages and farmland, putting ...

Allan Stanton, the author's father, in a photo dated April 1969 Peter Lang-Stanton set out to make a radio documentary about the truth of his father's role in one of the largest clandestine ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For days up there on the Plain of Jars I’d been trying to capture an image, find a metaphor, crystallize an idea that ...

Chinese developers are constructing high-rise residential towers across the special economic zone that are geared to Chinese investors, unaffordable to the vast majority of Lao. Warning ...

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This week, Laos, a landlocked country of less than seven million, is presiding over the first of two rounds of regional summitry as this year’s chair of the ten-member Association of Southeast ...

Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, yet, paradoxically, life revolves around water. Running the length of the mainly mountainous country is the mighty Mekong River, which floods ...

Landlocked Laos is comprised of thickly forested and mountainous terrain. The Mekong River forms a large part of the country's western border with Thailand. Most children in Laos live in rural areas, ...

VIENTIANE -- The purchasing power of people in Laos is fading rapidly amid soaring inflation, a weakening currency and other deteriorating macroeconomic conditions, with experts warning the ...

Economic instability and challenges in social services are threatening the gains Laos has made in poverty eradication, education, nutritional status, and other key human development indicators. The ...