Centuries ago, the kingdom that made up much of modern-day Laos was called Lan Xang. In English ... have endured as a cultural icon for the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the numbers tell ...

Modern-day Laos has its roots in the ancient Lao kingdom of Lan Xang, established in the 14th Century under King Fa Ngum. For 300 years, Lan Xang included large parts of present-day Cambodia and ...

In the reign of King Rama III, when Laos was a vassal state of Siam, the last king of Lan Xang, Chao Anouvong, led a coup against Siam. In response, in 1828, the Siamese army suppressed the coup ...

Lan Xang is up and running in six of Laos’s 17 provinces ... “We have less of this kind of fraud now, as people know we are checking.” All the hard work has been noticed. In November, the Centre for ...

There are signs when a place is going to be amazingly and authentically delicious. And Lan Xang has all of them. The decor is a little off, with ratty booths, a neon-pink Corona flamingo ...