For instance, Laos, the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, has alarms going off: public and publicly-guaranteed debt was $14.5 billion, 89 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, and is likely over ...

BEIJINGBEIJING — Laos, a nation of 7 million people wedged between China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links China’s poor southwest to foreign markets but ...

The economic growth trend in Laos started when it first opened to foreign trade and investment in the early 1990s. Three major economic crises have hit Laos since, profoundly affecting the country’s ...

As the train sped through the Lao forest at 160 kilometers per hour, I had a flashback to last February, when I traveled from Vientiane to the Chinese border to document the developments at the Boten ...

China’s intense railway expansion has marked a new milestone with the official opening of a new track that pushes beyond its own frontiers into its southern neighbor Laos. The track, China’s first ...

The government reportedly plans on employing the new revenue stream's profits on "priority" programs. Laos is reportedly expected to earn approximately $190 million in 2022 from bitcoin mining ...

BANGKOK — The impoverished nation of Laos, fueled by abundant hydroelectric power from the Mekong River, is shrugging off U.S. warnings of disastrous environmental problems and stepping in after China ...

(Sydney) – The Australian government should press the Lao government to take concrete steps to improve its poor human rights record at the seventh Australia-Laos Human Rights Dialogue on December 9, ...

Civil society groups in Southeast Asia are pushing back against the Laos government’s recent directives to monitor social media platforms and enforce internet registration. On May 20, the Ministry of ...

Lastly, we urge the Lao government to ratify without further delay the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which Laos signed in September 2008, and ...

With the strong commitment of senior leaders of both Parties and States, along with the efforts of ministries, sectors, ...

PM Chinh stressed that in the current context, the two countries must adopt new resolve, new approaches and new drivers to ...