For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics. Fifty ...

XIENG KHOUANG, Laos (Reuters Life!) - Eight months pregnant, Peng Souvanthon stands in the windy, sun-drenched hills of Laos instructing other women as they remove unexploded bombs from a war that ...

I celebrated my birthday this year by returning to Laos, the country of my birth. The country I gave up when I became a naturalized U.S. citizen. In October, I had the opportunity to return with the ...

Each day a woman hangs out her wash to dry alongside one of the myriad branches of the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. This innocent-looking domestic scene is of particular interest to U.S. reconnaissance ...

The usually sleepy Laotian capital Vientiane has an uncharacteristic buzz, bedecked with flags and T-shirt vendors ahead of ...

This September marks 80 years since the end of World War II. Even at that distance, we are still feeling its legacy. In August, authorities discovered a 250-kg World War II bomb during construction in ...

Staff Sgt. Steven Saunders carries the possible remains of American Vietnam War dead recovered from Laos at Hickam Airfield on Friday. U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Mitchell Hartman, an explosive ...

Just nine months after the 14-nation Geneva Conference guaranteed Laotian neutrality, Laos last week tottered on the brink of civil war and once again threatened to drag the major powers into a bitter ...