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 ...

In a remote mountain village of northern Laos, a community has developed their own electrical grid, yet faces an uncertain future. Luc Forsyth and Gareth Bright have set out on a journey to follow the ...

SAN RAMON — La Reagan never intended to establish and run an international charity for Laotian children — quite the opposite, in fact. Back in 2004, Reagan and her family journeyed to Laos with the ...

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.

Chico >> Children don’t have pencils or paper in their classrooms. Farm animals roam freely with residents of the villages, where there are no flush-toilets and electricity was introduced just three ...

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 ...