Douangchay Phichit, his wife and three others die after air force plane crashes in forest near airport in Xiangkhoung province A Laos air force plane carrying senior government officials has crashed, killing the country's defence minister and at least five others. The plane came down in a forested area of Xiangkhoung province, near one of Laos's major archaeological sites, the Plain of Jars, the Thai...
A survey of people from over 100 countries by the Anti-Defamation league also found that 46% of those taking part did not know about the Holocaust An estimated 1.09bn adults have antisemitic views, new research has suggested. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish nongovernmental organisation, surveyed over 50,000 adults from 102 countries and territories to produce the ADL Global 100 report....
Family and colleagues believe Sombath Somphone was forcibly detained, joining ranks of others taken in ‘forced disappearance’ Helen Davidson ...
Singaporean national and Unicef representative Shui Meng Ng speaks to Amnesty International about her husband Sombath Somphone, who was forcibly disappeared in Laos ...
Food security issues lead to disagreement over concerns that dam will hit livelihood of tens of millions Vietnam urged Laos to halt construction of a $3.5bn (£2.2bn) hydropower dam on Mekong River pending further study, environmental activists said on Friday. ...
Lao Airlines plane is said to have crashed into Mekong river on flight from capital Vientiane An aircraft has crashed into the Mekong river in Laos, killing 39 people. A Lao Airlines official said the plane had crashed at about 4pm local time near Pakse, Champasak province, which is on the borders of both Thailand and Cambodia. ...
Sustained annual growth of 8%, poverty reduction and schooling for all children are key goals, but corruption and illiteracy linger Laos has long been seen as a poor, landlocked, sparsely populated country. But it is at last emerging from its isolation. Once a part of French Indochina, ranking as the poor relation among its neighbours, it is now shaping up as a new contender in south-east Asia, with...
Vietnam's remote forests have finally come to the attention of ecologists, but efforts to protect wildlife and people risk being stymied by the habits and hardship of poachers and loggers Le Quoc Thien is a slightly-built 25-year-old not long out of state university. He graduated two years ago in forestry, directly before joining the Saola nature reserve as a forest guard. He's on leave now, but in...
Court convicts 21 men and nine women of smuggling nearly two tonnes of heroin from Laos and then on to China A Vietnamese court has sentenced 30 people to death for trafficking in heroin at the conclusion of a mass trial. State media reported the 21 men and nine women were convicted on Monday of being part of a ring that smuggled nearly two tonnes of heroin from Laos into Vietnam and then on to China....
A brief moment during a journey on the Mekong river brings together women from two different worlds I remember standing in the middle of the Mekong at dusk, watching the sun slip closer to the horizon and become swallowed by a slash-and-burn smoke cloud that habitually smudges the sky with charcoals. Dozens of children kicked around a makeshift football and sliding down the mud walls that form...
Lao and Thai rescuers search the Mekong river for bodies on Thursday, after a Lao Airlines flight crashed with 49 people on board ...
Only 17 victims have been retrieved from the Mekong river as divers search in vain for plane's fuselage ...
Six Australians were among 49 killed when Lao Airlines jet crashed into Mekong river while preparing to land Oliver Laughland ...
s more pure, crystalline form, "ice". Verachai said that roughly 75% of those seeking treatment at drug rehabilitation centres in Thailand were yaba users, with the remainder seeking help for ice. Doctors warn that chronic use can lead to hallucinations, anxiety and psychosis. As individual yaba tablets are sold for up to only 200 baht (£4) each, the drug is easily accessible and highly popular with...
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hard labour, up to a life sentence in prison, or even the death penalty in very serious cases. "North Korea has to come clean on where these nine refugees are and publicly guarantee that they will not be harmed or retaliated against for having fled the country," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch. "As a result of their return, they are at dire risk." AUS state department...
s private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food insecurity, according to a report. The study, concluding a year-long investigation by the watchdog Global Witness, names two of Vietnam's biggest companies, the privately owned Huang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and state-owned Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG), as the businesses behind...
A film looking into the activities of two Vietnamese rubber firms with operations in Cambodia and Laos Mustafa Khalili Leah Green Kate Hodal ...
Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam could be left with little more than 10-20% of their original forest cover by 2030 ...
s land area. Using satellite data, the WWF researchers calculated that since 1980, Cambodia has lost 22% of its 1973 forest cover, Laos and Burma 24%, and Thailand and Vietnam 43%. The report on ecosystems in the greater Mekong area warns that these countries risk losing more than one-third of their remaining forest cover within the next two decades if they fail to increase protection. "The greater...