Laos is an independent landlocked country in Southeast Asia. Surrounded by China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. The natives are the Lao people, a Southeast Asia Tai ethnic group. They were ...

Laos is a paradise by any standard. The hilly landscape is sweeping and lush and devastatingly gorgeous. The cities are more like towns — small and bustling and never overwhelming; they are walkable ...

VIENG XAY, Laos, (Reuters Life!) - For more than 30 years, Laos' "hidden city", home of its top communist guerrilla fighters, remained exactly that: hidden. Now Laos is opening the secret limestone ...

The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in Southeast Asia that has worked hard in recent years to shed its reputation ...

A new day breaks to the rhythmic shuffling of bare feet upon the ground. Like an apparition from centuries past, a procession of several hundred shaven-headed monks emerges through the dawn mist, ...