Laos

Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong said during a special government meeting in Vientiane on September 13 that Laos was running a "high debt level"...

Brunei has made the energy sector in Southeast Asia sit up and take notice with its announcement that the oil-rich state will introduce a...

Westerners cringe at the thought of eating a man’s best friend, a taboo cuisine that has been dined upon throughout parts of Asia. An...

Farmers in Laos' impoverished northwestern province of Oudomxay, the regional crossroads of the Laos opium trade, have reportedly been encouraged by a project to...

Inflation in Laos remains high, driven by price rises in food and non-alcoholic beverages, restaurants and hotels, housing, water, electricity and cooking gas, as...

Laos and East Timor pledged to draft a number of bilateral and multilateral frameworks during a state visit of East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana...

Despite constitutional protections, the small minority that makes up Christians in Laos are faced with either giving up their religion or being deported out...

The hotel and travel industry of Laos is studying how MICE tourism (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) could create an opportunity for the sector...

A new factory of Japan's high-end camera maker Nikon will commence operations in October, the company announced. The DSLR camera manufacturing site will conduct a...

The Lao Securities Exchange, which currently boasts just 2 listed companies, said on August 30 that it will start trading bonds and also triple...

The Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it will try to sign reciprocal visa exemption with ASEAN countries in 2014. With Laos, the country has...

A Lao development firm, Sahamit Development Corporation Company, will team up with a Hungarian business group to produce agricultural goods for local markets and...

After Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts, White Masks, People's Army, rice farmers and rubber farmers, Bangkok's taxi drivers are the next to stage a rally...

Lao Airlines, Laos' national carrier, is planning to buy 2 twin-engine turboprops ATR72-600 aircraft next year and 2 Airbus 320s in 2015 to cope...

Investors in Laos, both local and foreign, are  encountering growing problems due to the chronic labour shortage in the country, it turned out at...

Expatriates and foreign professionals have rated Brunei as the best country in Southeast Asia to work, a survey by the American Malaysian Chamber of...

Laos has opened a Chinatown market in Bokeo province's Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, an area that hosts a casino catering mainly to Chinese clientele....

Ch. Karnchang Plc, one of Thailand's largest industry conglomerates, has signed a contract through its subsidiary CK Power Plc with the Laos government to...