Carol Cassidy started her shop in 1990; sees "beautiful side of globalization." VIENTIANE, Laos, July 22, 2008 — -- In the northern Lao village of Pakor, where 100 people live along a few hundred ...

The first delivery of certified rattan with an FSC-label from Laos is expected in early summer this year. Significant progress has been made towards more sustainable rattan management and harvesting.

BANGKOK -- Flooding from a South Korean-constructed hydroelectric dam in Laos left several people dead and hundreds missing, state media said Tuesday. Rescue efforts were underway as top government ...

It was late in the morning, and the Communist antiaircraft crews guarding the bridge on Route 7, ten miles from the Laotian village of Ban Ban, were probably not hankering for extra work. Suddenly ...

Seven Christians in a Laotian village were arrested and detained for several days for holding a church service deemed illegal. They were arrested Dec. 29 and released Jan. 2, according to Radio Free ...