VIENTIANE, Oct 5 (The Vientiane Times/ANN): Buddhists across the country spent two days taking part in colourful festivities to mark the end of Buddhism lent or Ork Phan Sa which concluded the ...

For days up there on the Plain of Jars I’d been trying to capture an image, find a metaphor, crystallize an idea that could convey what it means for Laos ... I went—Buddhist temples, to ...

In a land area of about 74,195 square kilometers, the diocesan territory covers Bolikhamxai, Houaphan, Vientiane and Xiangkhoang ... middle of the 13th century the Lao tribes who had migrated from ...

The Lao-China Railway, which runs from Vientiane, the capital of Laos ... a UNESCO World Heritage Site with dozens of elaborate Buddhist temples and elegant French colonial villas; and to Vang ...

Life moves slower in Laos, but the pace is quickening and the 'land of a million elephants' is increasingly in the clutches ...