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Vietnam records its highest ever temperature of 44.2 °C (111.56 °F) in the Tương Dương district, Nghệ An province, while Laos records its highest ever temperature of 43.5 °C (110.3 °F) in Luang Prabang amid a heat wave.
2023-05-6

Laos surpasses 20,000 cases of COVID-19 after reporting a record 694 new cases in the past 24 hours.
2021-09-23

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 380 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 6,299.
2021-07-31

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

Barack Obama pledges US$90 million to clear Laos of unexploded ordnance dropped by the United States during the Vietnam War.
2016-09-6

The 25th ASEAN Summit is held in the city of Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar.
2014-11-12

Park Geun-Hye, the President of South Korea, warns North Korea that it will be held responsible for the fate of nine young asylum seekers repatriated from Laos. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20130603-skorean-leader-warns-north-over-returned-refugees (AFP via France 24)]date=July 2019
2013-06-3

After Sri Lanka, Liang Guanglie leaves India for Laos. It has been the first visit to India of a Chinese Minister of Defence in eight years.
2012-09-6

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