The US dropped more than 270 million bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War. An estimated 30% of the bombs remain unexploded and are scattered across the country. Some villagers use those bombs as scrap ...

The bloated carcasses of pigs and cows float in the knee-high flood waters covering the Laos village of Hoi Kong, as mud-caked residents pick through the remnants of homes destroyed by a dam collapse ...

Village chiefs and residents attacked a house church in a village in southern Laos. The faithful, whose community is recognised by the government, were meeting for the Sunday service. Despite their ...

Laos is betting on an ambitious dam-building programme to generate investment for the country to become the "battery of Asia" BANGKOK, July 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Activists called for ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Decades after the Vietnam War ended, there are around 80 million unexploded bombs left in Laos.