The opium poppy that has long bloomed across the mountains of northern Laos has almost been wiped out by the government's drastic eradication campaign. But what is being hailed as a victory by the ...

As a young immigrant from Laos, growing up in Seattle and attending a predominantly white school, Mey Saelee didn't care to learn about her culture and didn't see a need to study her native language.

The frail old man walked slowly, carrying a live chicken by the neck. He squatted down over a woven basket of flowers, eggs, and candles, and waved the chicken over it, singing and humming. This was ...

Formerly remote, peaceful, and entirely rural, Laos is said to have become, in the 1960s and early 1970s, the most heavily bombed country on the planet. Today, unexploded ordnance still constitute a ...

A former Aussie teacher says helping Laotian hill tribes with coffee-growing is vital to easing poverty and stop them turning to growing poppies for opium. Lao coffee beans on the ground and drying in ...

South-East Asian venue Lao has opened at the Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm Jumeirah, inspired by the ancient Lao tribe that populated South Asia in the first millennium, and features flavours from ...