The Latest Breaking News from Laos

Despite promises made by Southeast Asia governments, consumers in the region may not be able to afford American-made products.

Ma Yang’s partner says Milwaukee is the only home the Hmong-American woman has known since arriving in the US at eight months old

Exclusive details: ‘Nobody with any compassion would think that’s any compelling reason’ to separate Yang from her family, her former lawyer, Matt Ricci, said

An American mother of five has been deported from Milwaukee to Laos—a country she has never set foot in—after serving time for a marijuana-related charge.

‘The United States sent me back to die,’ Ma Yang, a mother of five, said

As the UK, Australia and Denmark mount joint diplomatic push, grieving families fear Laos’ investigation into the suspected methanol poisonings won’t deliver justice

The global illicit drugs trade is estimated to be worth at least half a trillion US dollars each year. Drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin generate large revenues all along their supply chains, from where the products (and precursor materials) are grown or made – principally Colombia and Bolivia,…

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after an incident in Vang Vieng, Laos

Vietnam approved plans on Wednesday for a multi-billion-dollar railway with China, boosting links between the two communist countries.