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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

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

Laotian human rights activist Anousa Luangsuphom is shot at a coffeehouse in the capital Vientiane.
2023-04-29

Laos reports a record 278 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,620.
2021-07-24

Laos extends its nationwide lockdown for another 15 days until June 4 as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase.
2021-05-20

The death toll from a dam collapse in Laos that caused heavy floods rises to 26, while more than 130 remain missing.
2018-07-25

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

Laos denies knowledge as to the fate of missing activist Sombath Somphone, who disappeared last week in the capital Vientiane.
2012-12-20

Nine servicemen from the Thai army are arrested on suspicion of killing 13 Chinese sailors on October 5 in a section of the Mekong River bordering Thailand, Laos and Myanmar.
2011-10-28

Thongsing Thammavong is named as the new Prime Minister of Laos, a day after the unexpected resignation of Bouasone Bouphavanh.
2010-12-24