VIENTIANE: Laos and Vietnam have agreed to elevate their long-standing relations to a “Great Friendship, Special Solidarity, Comprehensive Cooperation, and Strategic Partnership”, during a state visit ...

The US dropped more than 270 million bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War. An estimated 30% of the bombs remain unexploded and are scattered across the country. Some villagers use those bombs as scrap ...

Most Americans learn something about the Vietnam War at school. Fewer learn about the shadow war that was being fought alongside it. From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs ...

The lack of progress on the 555-kilometer railway linking Vung Ang to the Lao capital Vientiane contrasts starkly with the recently completed Kunming-Vientiane line. As is tradition for Vietnamese ...