While praising Lao PDR’s engagement with international human rights mechanisms, Xanthaki voiced concerns over policies that marginalize ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples.

New choices are popping up regularly for cruises on rivers I'm unfamiliar with, or at least never considered as cruise ...

As the sun begins its descent, painting the sky in shades of amber and violet, a wooden boat glides along the calm waters of ...

Why take a high-speed train to northern Laos when you can take three days to do pretty much the same trip by boat—never ...

The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a ...

Backpacker hotspot Vang Vieng is in the spotlight following deaths of six tourists from suspected methanol poisoning.

Currently, there are four Apostolic Vicariates in Laos: Vientiane, Paksè, Luang Prabang, and Savannakhet, collectively serving about 60,000 Catholics. Since the official recognition of the ...

The deaths of six backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian ...

A four-hour bus ride from the capital Vientiane, it has long been the stopping point on the Banana Pancake Trail backpacking ...

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has ...

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 ...

Laos is a great place to learn about Buddhism, as Lao culture is mainly based on Buddhist-animist traditions. One of the main events in the religious life for Lao people is the Boun That Luang ...