These five countries, with their low levels of English proficiency, make it hard for British tourists to get around without ...

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This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For days up there on the Plain of Jars I’d been trying to capture an image, find a metaphor, crystallize an idea that ...

Economic instability and challenges in social services are threatening the gains Laos has made in poverty eradication, education, nutritional status, and other key human development indicators. The ...

Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, yet, paradoxically, life revolves around water. Running the length of the mainly mountainous country is the mighty Mekong River, which floods ...

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Lao rice production has been increasing significantly since the early 1990s. It was driven by area expansion and increase in yields. Rice production in Laos has more than doubled over 1991–2011, and ...

No news wasn't really good news for Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) on Tuesday. It's safe to say the mighty tech company doesn't like being reminded of its woes in the ...

UK tourists venturing outside of the European Union on their holidays have been warned over countries where NO English is ...

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Chinese developers are constructing high-rise residential towers across the special economic zone that are geared to Chinese investors, unaffordable to the vast majority of Lao. Warning ...