One in three girls in Laos is married before 18, making it one of the highest child marriage rates in the region, UNICEF reports.
Despite laws prohibiting marriage below 18, the practice continues to undermine the rights, education, and health of Lao girls and women.
The Lao Statistics Bureau reported that...
Social media users in Laos have raised concerns about a surge in suspicious scholarship advertisements that target students aspiring to study abroad, particularly in...
The Lao government has announced four key strategies aimed at accelerating domestic power generation, to address the country’s ongoing electricity shortage.
Speaking at a National...
Laos has carried out a sweeping government reshuffle, replacing or reassigning nine ministers along with the governor of the central bank.
The move follows a...
On 3 June, seven international and one local company submitted preliminary qualification documents for the Luang Prabang International Airport Improvement and Development Project, a...