Members of the Miss Lao New Year pageant from left, Julie Vilaylack, Vanyda Boulom, Tiffany Boone, Breanna Lee and Nola Phonkaseumsouk gather together in the front row to pray and give offerings to ...

A new day breaks to the rhythmic shuffling of bare feet upon the ground. Like an apparition from centuries past, a procession of several hundred shaven-headed monks emerges through the dawn mist, ...

A recent conference, a trip overseas and a reconnecting with a sister city have offered an opportunity to strengthen bonds between Elgin and its Lao community. Last weekend, and for the first time, ...

VIENTIANE: The Lao government is planning to transform Lao capital Vientiane into a low-carbon and climate-resilient city. To address Laos' growing infrastructure needs amid rapid urbanisation, the ...

Officer Eddie Thiphasouk of the Sioux City Police Department came to the United States in 1986 from a refugee camp in Thailand with little more than the T-shirt and shorts he was wearing. "It was a ...

VIENG XAY, Laos, (Reuters Life!) - For more than 30 years, Laos' "hidden city", home of its top communist guerrilla fighters, remained exactly that: hidden. Now Laos is opening the secret limestone ...

The Lao Unity Church has come a long way since its days in Keo Phommarat's basement. In 1999, Phommarat hosted Bible study groups there before the group was able to move to a building at 2300 Geneva ...

Van Pak Len (Laos) (AFP) – Rising from the muddy fields on the Mekong riverbank in Laos, a lotus tops a casino in a sprawling city which analysts decry as a centre for cybercrime. Shabby, mismatched ...

California, in particular, has been tied to Laos since the end of the Vietnam War, when refugees found new homes in cities like Fresno and Merced. Nationwide, some 209,000 U.S. residents were ...

Top leaders of Ho Chi Minh City had a working session on March 10 with visiting Lao National Assembly Chairwoman Pany Yathotou. Top leaders of Ho Chi Minh City had a working session on March 10 with ...