Buddhist Lent is a special three-month-long period which starts on the full moon in July and ends on the full moon in October. The beginning of the Buddhist Lent is widely celebrated in South-East ...

LONG 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 ...

VIENTIANE (Laotian Times): Laos has set a big goal: to become the main centre for buying, selling, and processing gold in Asia within the next five years. At a high-profile meeting on 02 May ...

CCTV footage captured British best friends Bethany Clarke and Simone White with a group of young travellers laughing and drinking at happy hour at the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Laos. (Nine ...

Laos is ready to take its nationwide digital ID card system to the next stage. The Southeast Asian country’s Department of Mass Media announced that it is moving forward with the initiative via its ...

Hanoi (VNA) – With anthrax outbreaks reported in neighbouring countries, Lao authorities have intensified surveillance of livestock herds across multiple localities, closely monitoring animal ...

Armed clashes, suspected to be drug-related, have erupted along the Thai-Laos border, leading to the closure of the Phu Chi Fa viewpoint in Thailand. The violence, occurring in Laos' Bokeo province ...

Recent armed clashes in Laos, potentially linked to drug smuggling within the Golden Triangle, have prompted Thailand to close the popular Phu Chi Fa viewpoint on the border. The US Embassy in ...

BANGKOK: Rare armed clashes in Laos believed to be linked to drug smuggling have forced Thailand to close a popular mountain viewing point on the border and prompted a security warning from the ...