The more than 250-mile, $6 billion railway is set to cut through the northern part of Laos and is primarily financed and built by the Chinese. So... In Laos, A Chinese-Funded Railway Sparks Hope For ...

Dozens of human rights groups have signed a joint petition calling on Laos authorities to release a prominent Chinese lawyer as its embassy in Britain warned he could be deported back to China.

Lao and Chinese security forces have detained 771 people in a special economic zone in the country’s northwest, ahead of a deadline for online scam operations to cease their operations inside the zone ...

LUANG PRABANG, Laos — “No coffee, no coffee,” repeated the security guard. His smile stood in stark contrast to his faded camouflage fatigues and the machine gun slung over his shoulder. Few cafés in ...

Authorities in Laos have deported 462 Chinese nationals suspected of committing crimes including human trafficking, the latest sign of a sweeping regional crackdown on cyber-scam operations. Yesterday ...

BOKEO, Laos (Reuters) - Kongkaew Vonusak smiles when he recalls the arrival of Chinese investors in his tranquil village in northern Laos in 2014. With them came easy money, he said. The Chinese ...

More than $1 trillion in Chinese loans to the developing world is building sparkling infrastructure, but the cost is still being tallied People at the artificial That Luang Lake in the That Luang Lake ...

Secretive shops posing as cafés, museums and cultural experiences are selling illegal wildlife products such as ivory, rhino horn, bear bile, pangolin scales and tiger bones in Laos, often at inflated ...

BOKEO, Laos (Reuters) - Kongkaew Vonusak smiles when he recalls the arrival of Chinese investors in his tranquil village in northern Laos in 2014. With them came easy money, he said. The Chinese ...