Developing Asia’s laggard Laos faces economic headwinds
BANGKOK – Xay, an auto mechanic from Laos, has been working in Thailand for three years. A combination of rising prices and falling purchasing power...
Category : Laos
Highlights of RFA coverage of Laos
Communist-run Laos is stuck in a political rut but it has seen a physical and economic transformation since Radio Free Asia first went on air...
Lao troops killed in attack tied to drug crackdown: report
BANGKOK and TAIPEI – Gunmen attacked Lao military positions in Bokeo province near the northern Thai border, sources told Radio Free Asia on Monday. A...
InDrive ride-hailing app faces deletion in Laos
Ride-hailing app inDrive is under risk of being scrapped in Laos after recent reports of sexual assaults by drivers that raised concerns over a lack...
New mega-dam takes shape on the Mekong River in Laos
The headlong rush to dam the Mekong River in Southeast Asia has been highlighted by rare footage from a major dam under construction near the...
Laos investigates executives who oversaw long-delayed hydro dam
Lao authorities are investigating officials responsible for a hydropower dam that is a decade behind schedule in another sign of problems surfacing from the country’s...
Rise in HIV/AIDS cases in Laos tied to dam and mine projects, NGO official says
Young Lao women are contracting HIV/AIDS after selling sex to some of the thousands of workers who have come into the country in recent years...
2 Lao women warn of pitfalls of agreeing to ‘sham marriages’ in China
A Lao woman who traveled to China for an arranged marriage warned others to demand legal documents and to have in-person meetings with potential husbands...
Shop explosion, fire in northern Laos kills 4, injures others
A fire and explosion at a Chinese-owned shop in northern Laos on Friday killed four people, including Chinese nationals, and injured several others, the Chinese...
Defying orders, Chinese miner hasn’t stopped operating near 2 sinkholes in Laos
Defying orders from Lao officials, a Chinese-owned potash mining company hasn’t stopped operating near two massive sinkholes in central Laos, a Lao official, a worker...
