Unpacking the Local Impact of China’s Mega-Projects on Kyrgyzstan’s Regions The two neighbors share deep historical, political, and geographic affinities, but these risk being weakened by the shifting ...

For instance, Laos, the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, has alarms going off: public and publicly-guaranteed debt was $14.5 billion, 89 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, and is likely over ...

Grilled skewers are a staple street food across Laos. Marinated pieces of tofu are threaded onto sticks and grilled over ...

Laos celebrated a milestone moment as a major ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of its National Day unfolded at That ...

A new report highlights widespread monkey laundering in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, where wild-caught long-tailed macaques are illegally funneled into breeding farms before being exported for ...

A new initiative is aimed at raising awareness about a dark and often forgotten chapter of U.S. history: the secret bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War. Nearly half a century later, most Americans ...

"There have been a lot of changes in the city, most of them positive," said HoumphanSaiyalath, the managing director of real estate portal RentsBuy.com. "Outside investment is visibly [improving] the ...

North Korea and South Korea maintain strict separation most everywhere in the world. Yet oddly, one of the few places they intersect is Laos, the small, communist nation that's long had ties with the ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 18 April 2023 Laos is one of the world's few openly communist states. It is a one-party state and the general secretary of the Lao People's ...

More than 10,000 people have been affected by a catastrophic dam collapse in southern Laos, according to figures published by the United Nations. An unknown number of houses were washed away in the ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For days up there on the Plain of Jars I’d been trying to capture an image, find a metaphor, crystallize an idea that could ...