VIENTIANE (Reuters) - After decades of isolation, Communist-led Laos is enjoying an economic boom fuelled in part by surging demand for its abundant commodity -- land. Sign up here. From China to ...

Paris, Bangkok, 18 June 2014: The Lao government must urgently address land rights issues and protect land and environmental rights defenders, FIDH and its member organization, the Lao Movement for ...

VIENTIANE, LAO PDR (28 August 2012)—During a riveting keynote speech given at a international land and forestry conference in Vientiane today, Dr. Souvanhpheng Bouphanouvong, President of the National ...

(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Darren Schuettler VIENTIANE, April 7 (Reuters) - In the eyes of Laos' Communist rulers, trading Vientiane's biggest wetland for a new sports stadium seemed ...

Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone has called for accelerated efforts to strengthen food security, modernise agricultural production, and improve the management of land, forest, and water resources ...

BANGKOK: Caretaker PM Anutin backs Laos’ “Land-Locked to Land-Linked” policy as Vientiane donates US$200,000 for southern flood relief and talks focus on links and border impacts. Caretaker Prime ...

Laos is now forcing the timber industry to comply with new regulations in order to save the country from deforestation … Lao has issued more than 700,000 land ownership certificates so far.However the ...

At least 500 people have been uprooted from their homes to make way for luxury villas where European Union foreign ministers, including William Hague, will stay during a summit in Laos on Monday.