The opium poppy that has long bloomed across the mountains of northern Laos has almost been wiped out by the government's drastic eradication campaign. But what is being hailed as a victory by the ...

The Thai Dam people danced in a large circle to the pulse of a drum. The women, hair slicked back in tight buns, wore fitted black blouses with silver clasps and multicolored silk sarongs. One by one, ...

The frail old man walked slowly, carrying a live chicken by the neck. He squatted down over a woven basket of flowers, eggs, and candles, and waved the chicken over it, singing and humming. This was ...

Formerly remote, peaceful, and entirely rural, Laos is said to have become, in the 1960s and early 1970s, the most heavily bombed country on the planet. Today, unexploded ordnance still constitute a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A former Aussie teacher says helping Laotian hill tribes with coffee-growing is vital to easing poverty and stop them turning to growing poppies for opium. Lao coffee beans on the ground and drying in ...

For six weeks the quarreling Laotian politicians had been unable to select a new Premier. Last week parliamentary leaders suddenly made up their minds. Picked as the youngest Premier in Laotian ...

South-East Asian venue Lao has opened at the Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm Jumeirah, inspired by the ancient Lao tribe that populated South Asia in the first millennium, and features flavours from ...