For his part, the Lao leader asked Party General Secretary To Lam to convey his regards to high-ranking leaders of the CPV ...

The Party Secretary General and state President, Mr Thongloun Sisoulith, held talks via video conference on Sunday with the ...

Laos is a one-party Communist state, and strict controls on the media meant the deaths often went unreported. But the authorities finally launched a crackdown in 2011, after 27 tourists were said ...

The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, ...

Police in Laos have arrested eight people over the suspected mass methanol poisoning which killed six foreign tourists in ...

An American man was among at least six tourists who were killed in a mass alcohol poisoning case in a popular tourist town in ...

Vang Vieng has been a fixture on the Southeast Asia backpacker trail since Laos’ secretive communist rulers opened ... drinking tainted alcohol in Laos party town Six tourists die after drinking ...

Laos is a one-party communist state with no organized opposition and the government keeps a tight lid on information. In this case, officials have released almost no details. The police have said ...

Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos’s history, when the US waged a years-long ‘Secret War’.