Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tens of thousands of tourists annually use slow boat and speedboat services along the Mekong [Getty Images] It was supposed to be ...

Cardinal-designate Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, who will become the first cardinal from Laos, is an ethnic Khmu, a hill tribe from northern Laos and southern China. When St. John Paul II named ...

An explosion at a shop in northern Laos killed four people including Chinese nationals, Beijing's consulate general in the country reported. Smoke from a building. Illustration photo by Pixabay The ...

In Laos’ off-and-on-again civil war, Premier Boun Oum and his anti-Communist government talked of victory last week and rushed construction of a concrete and steel war memorial in the capital city of ...