VIENTIANE: Authorities in Attapeu province have awarded concessions to three Lao companies, enabling them to grow durian on hundreds of hectares of land as part of the government’s broader effort to ...

VIENTIANE, LAO PDR (28 August 2012)—During a riveting keynote speech given at a international land and forestry conference in Vientiane today, Dr. Souvanhpheng Bouphanouvong, President of the National ...

VIENTIANE (Reuters) - After decades of isolation, Communist-led Laos is enjoying an economic boom fuelled in part by surging demand for its abundant commodity -- land. Sign up here. From China to ...

Paris, Bangkok, 18 June 2014: The Lao government must urgently address land rights issues and protect land and environmental rights defenders, FIDH and its member organization, the Lao Movement for ...

Though it rarely makes international headlines, Laos has been in the spotlight for the past month. One of its most well-respected activists has gone missing after stopping at a police checkpoint. His ...

New Lao ambassador to Thailand, Sisavath Inphachanh (left) making a courtesy call on Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul at Government House on Dec 23. - The Nation/ANN BANGKOK: Caretaker PM ...

(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Darren Schuettler VIENTIANE, April 7 (Reuters) - In the eyes of Laos' Communist rulers, trading Vientiane's biggest wetland for a new sports stadium seemed ...

The Lao government is strongly pushing ahead with different projects to better connect the country to the main transport networks of the region and integrate it into global value chains. Laos’ ...