Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, yet, paradoxically, life revolves around water. Running the length of the mainly mountainous country is the mighty Mekong River, which floods ...

PHNOM PENH (Bernama): When over-worked Southeast Asian leaders arrive in Vientiane in Laos for the Asean Summit ... leaders need to collectively map out strategies and contingency plans if the ...

The joint communique issued by ASEAN foreign ministers over the weekend ... is attending this week's two-day retreat in Laos. The appointment of the veteran diplomat Alounkeo Kittikhoun is ...

As ASEAN's most economically challenged economy, excluding its strife-torn neighbor Myanmar, Laos has time to prepare for the aging of its youthful population of about 7.5 million.

For the ASEAN nations — Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Brunei and Laos — the violence in Myanmar is at the top of the agenda as the bloc ...