From 1959 to 1975, Laos became the site for one of the least known, yet most devastating, conflicts of the 20th century.

The silvery Cessna Wren scudded high above the Plain of Jars, and the tiny man in rumpled fatigues peered down through eyes red-rimmed with exhaustion. Below him the wind moved casually over ...

During a private audience on Tuesday, Pope Francis advanced the causes of canonization of 12 potential saints, two of whom were martyred by communist revolutionaries in Laos in 1960. The May 5 ...

During the Vietnam War's "secret war" in Southeast Asia, Leck Sengsoulichanh fought with the Laotian army as it supported U.S. troops. For his efforts, he spent 13 years doing hard labor in a ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Memorial ceremonies and events mourning the 40 th anniversary of the refugee exodus from the Royal Kingdom of Laos, and mass killings of tens of thousands of Lao and Hmong ...

VIENTIANE, Laos — There are only four of them, if you do not count the children. Lois Foehringer, David Merchant, Jacqui Chagnon and Roger Rumpf are the totality of the United States’ unofficial aid ...

Laotians rarely worry, but they are always concerned with the state of Vientiane’s Thai Dam pagoda. They believe that the black Buddhist shrine is in reality a cork that holds back an evil demon. Last ...

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