Why take a high-speed train to northern Laos when you can take three days to do pretty much the same trip by boat—never ...

Some of the world’s borders are just . . . weird. You know this very well if you’re a traveler, a student of history, or ...

The village of Nong Hua Thong is in southern Laos on a tributary of the Mekong River ... using a lidar map. -We will follow this way, and after that we will follow the river, okay?

Five years after the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos began operations, the cost of Mekong hydropower is becoming ever more clear. A photo of the Mekong River at Luang Prabang, Laos, prior to the ...

BANGKOK--Laos has submitted plans to build a new hydropower dam on the Mekong River, with construction expected to start later this year, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) said on Monday.

Mixed Plate continued its tour of Southeast Asia with a visit to one of Vietnam's largest and possibly nosiest city. It's a ...

But before Laos’ primitive customs guards can catch up and impose an import tax, the radios are smuggled back across the Mekong River and shipped into Bangkok for sale at handsome profits.

The leaders of China and the other five Mekong countries, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar ... Running through the subregion, the Mekong River, known as the Lancang River in China, is an ...

The families of two Australian teenagers killed in a suspected methanol poisoning in Laos have welcomed news ... in the poorer countries along the Mekong river, and the broader region has the ...

Starting on Monday, the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar will issue five-year multiple-entry visas with a maximum stay of 180 days per visit to eligible Myanmar business personnel, as well as their ...

A sixth person has died after drinking fake alcohol shots suspected of being laced with poisonous methanol during a backpacking holiday in Laos. Nineteen-year-old ... in developing countries along the ...