Sources: Reuters
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
Recent flash floods caused by heavy rainfall in northern Laos have caused at least 5.6 billion Lao kips in damage. 2022-08-29
Laos reports its first death from COVID-19. The patient is a 53-year-old woman who had been receiving treatment at a designated hospital in Vientiane since April 30. 2021-05-9
The death toll from a dam collapse in Laos on 23 July rises to 36, while 98 people are still missing. 2018-08-13
According to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, 30 Laotian soldiers cross the border into Steung Treng Province despite repeated requests for them to leave. Hun Sen gives Laos a six-day ultimatum to withdraw the soldiers or face a military response. 2017-08-11
One Chinese national is killed and three others injured in a possible militant attack on a Chinese-invested company in Laos, the official Xinhua News Agency reports. 2016-03-2
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
Thongsing Thammavong is named as the new Prime Minister of Laos, a day after the unexpected resignation of Bouasone Bouphavanh. 2010-12-24