Members of the Miss Lao New Year pageant from left, Julie Vilaylack, Vanyda Boulom, Tiffany Boone, Breanna Lee and Nola Phonkaseumsouk gather together in the front row to pray and give offerings to ...

LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — The day begins in darkness, lit only by street lamps. As dawn breaks, a pale blue light reveals a quiet line of monks in orange robes moving through the streets of the Lao ...

Hundreds of these otherworldly beings are grouped together in a park called Spirit City, which was constructed in the 1950s by one of the most unusual men in the modern histories of Laos and Thailand.

A recent conference, a trip overseas and a reconnecting with a sister city have offered an opportunity to strengthen bonds between Elgin and its Lao community. Last weekend, and for the first time, ...

Chances are your journey to Vientiane will not be direct, and arriving from Hanoi, Phnom Penh or Bangkok, you will be struck by the immaculate streets of the Laotian capital. Vientiane may just be the ...

The government has added smart city development to its agenda for this year as landlocked Laos seeks ways to strengthen its economic competitiveness in the coming years. The government told the ...

A Reuters report says that for more than 30 years, Laos’ “hidden city”, home of its top communist guerrilla fighters, remained exactly that: hidden. Now Laos is opening the secret limestone caves to ...

Laos has opened up to tourism a complex of caves that once sheltered communist guerrilla leaders from the most intense bombing campaign ever unleashed by the United States. Initially only five of the ...