Sources: Reuters
Laos and South Korea agree to upgrade their bilateral relations to a comprehensive partnership. 2025-12-15
Laos reports its first case of mpox. The national health ministry recommends that provincial health departments set up laboratory facilities for screening tests. 2023-09-19
Laos reports a record 952 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 13,909. 2021-08-25
Laos reports a record 170 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 3,710. 2021-07-20
Laos extends its lockdown measures for another 15 days until July 4 as the number of community transmission cases of COVID-19 continue to increase. 2021-06-19
The death toll from a dam collapse in Laos on 23 July rises to 36, while 98 people are still missing. 2018-08-13
Heavy rains cause the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in southern Laos to collapse, releasing a reported five billion cubic metres of water. As a result, 20 people are confirmed dead, over a hundred are missing, and 6,600 have been displaced. 2018-07-23
The bodies of 12 Chinese sailors have been found and one remains missing in Mekong river, where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet, after the incident last week in which two Chinese cargo vessels were hijacked by suspected drug smugglers in the Golden Triangle, and later captured by Thai river police.2011-10-11
Two large earthquakes are recorded in northeastern Burma near the borders with Laos and Thailand, killing at least two people. 2011-03-24