HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s electricity firm EVN has signed five new deals to buy electricity from Laos starting from next year, the state-run company said. The southeast Asian nation faces severe ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Police in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos have made one of Asia’s biggest-ever drug busts, seizing more than 55.6 million methamphetamine pills in a single raid. The drugs were ...

Laos, deeply indebted to China for large-scale infrastructure projects, is at high risk of defaulting on its obligations, according to experts, a situation exacerbated by the economic stress felt ...

As the train sped through the Lao forest at 160 kilometers per hour, I had a flashback to last February, when I traveled from Vientiane to the Chinese border to document the developments at the Boten ...

Read full article: Roanoke Police introduce bike patrols to boost downtown safety, community ties BEIJING – After a blessing by Buddhist monks, Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on Friday rode the ...

BEIJING (AP) — Laos, a nation of 7 million people wedged between China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links China’s poor southwest to foreign markets but ...

VIENTIANE, Jan 9: Laos' The Mother and Child Health Centre reports that Laos received a total of 13,682,490 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from foreign countries throughout 2021, reports Laotian Times.

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Laos is preparing to disconnect cryptocurrency miners from its national grid by the first quarter of 2026, as per a Reuters report. The government says the move will help redirect valuable electricity ...

Rain and Rainbows: Taiwan Celebrates Pride as Hong Kong’s LGBTQ Rights Stall After gambling with “high risk” levels of debt distress for more than a decade, Laos has fallen into a debt crisis (and ...

China’s intense railway expansion has marked a new milestone with the official opening of a new track that pushes beyond its own frontiers into its southern neighbor Laos. The track, China’s first ...

The government reportedly plans on employing the new revenue stream's profits on "priority" programs. Laos is reportedly expected to earn approximately $190 million in 2022 from bitcoin mining ...