The species could be wiped out from the Mekong River by a new hydropower project, which also threatens to decimate fishing stocks
Laos
Laos Joins Southeast Asian Internet Crackdown
Government introduces monitoring of social networks
49 Reported Dead in Laos Plane Crash
44 passengers and five crew members, all on board were killed
Messing Up the Mekong: Laos Plans a Second Huge Dam
Farming, fishing and wildlife in four countries threatened by brutal infrastructural project
Dog’s Dinner: Southeast Asian Nations Ban Illicit Canine Meat Trade
As urban myths go, it’s a good one. A woman takes her pet dog to a Vietnamese restaurant and hands it to the amiable waiter to be fed kitchen scraps. But then with great fanfare a silver platter arrives and poor Foo-Foo has …
Eight Months On, E.U. Lawmakers Talk Tough Over Disappeared Laos Activist
The video is admittedly grainy, but what it shows is undeniable — well, at least to everyone except the Laotian government. Prominent Laotian civil-society leader Sombath Somphone was last seen on Dec. 15, 2012, driving in his …
Q&A: Veteran War Photographer Tim Page on Cambodia, Conflict and Getting High
Tim Page covered three decades of conflict across Indochina after falling into the industry as a 21-year-old during the attempted Laos coup of 1965. Page smuggled the only pictures of the putsch out of the country and was offered …
Laos’ Mammoth Train Project a Fast Track to Debt and Despair
Change is coming to sleepy Laos in the form of a $7.2 billion railway, set to carve its way through this war-ravaged nation. The costs are to be borne by the Laotian government, courtesy of a Chinese loan amounting to a …