Freeze to US aid hits Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar hard
On the Thai-Myanmar border, sick patients are being sent home from hospital. In Laos, school meals have been interrupted. And in Cambodia, hundreds of staff...
Category : Laos
Lao authorities temporarily close iron ore mine after spillage pollutes rivers
Lao authorities have temporarily shut down a Vietnamese-owned iron ore mining operation in the northeastern part of the country after a washing reservoir overflowed and...
Laos shutters Chinese-owned potash mine over sinkholes
Laos has ordered a Chinese-owned potash mine believed responsible for two massive sinkholes in Khammouane province to cease operations until further notice, and to fill...
Vietnamese monk leaves Laos, enters Thailand
A Vietnamese Buddhist monk who became an internet sensation earlier this year has crossed from Laos into Thailand on his way to India. Thich Minh...
Vietnam’s barefoot monk expected to cross from Laos into Thailand
Vietnam’s barefoot monk has arrived in southern Laos’ Champasak province and could cross into Thailand later this weekend on his way to India, two eyewitnesses...
Lao teen freed from scam center now at trafficking victims facility in Thailand
A 19-year-old Lao girl who was forced to work at a Chinese-run online scam center in Myanmar for two years is safe at a rehabilitation...
Laos detains staff at hostel linked to backpacker poisonings: media
Police in the Lao tourist town of Vang Vieng have detained staff at a backpackers’ hostel linked to the death of six tourists from suspected...
Mayor of Lao tourist town hit by poisoning promises justice for victims
The mayor of the Lao tourist town of Vang Vieng has promised justice for the six foreign tourists who died after consuming drinks suspected of...
6 tourists dead after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos
Read more on this topic in Lao Updated on Nov. 22, 2024, 03:38 p.m. A young Australian woman has died after drinking alcohol laced with...
Briton, 2 Australians in intensive care after suspected alcohol poisoning in Laos
BANGKOK – One British and two Australian tourists are seriously ill after drinking alcohol suspected of being tainted with poisonous methanol in a tourist town...
