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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing ...

Authorities in the Lao capital Vientiane have threatened to detain a group of villagers if they do not accept compensation to vacate their land, which the local government has granted as a concession ...