Lao PDR’s path to becoming an upper-middle-income country by 2035 depends on urgent structural reforms, especially in governance, business regulation, and human development. Without these changes, ...

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Travellers pass by on scooters and on foot while Arne watches the street from his usual spot just inside the entrance of what ...

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In 1966, I spent two years living in the village of Muong Phalane, 14 kilometers (about 10 miles) from the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. The trail was the ...

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The purpose of the meeting was to prepare measures to deal with the energy, financial and fiscal crisis as the conflict in the Middle East continues without resolution, directly affecting domestic ...

Long queues formed at petrol stations across the Laotian capital Vientiane on Monday as fuel shortages deepened, with the ripples of the Middle East conflict reverberating across landlocked Laos.AFP ...