VIENTIANE: The government has set out a detailed strategy to develop Laos through economic reform, social improvements and environmental protection under its new five-year plan. Prime Minister Sonexay ...

The Lao economy is growing, driven by exports of services, electricity, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing, but inflation and labor shortages continue to threaten stability, according to a new ...

Laos had the feeling of a nation moving ever closer to an economic reckoning in 2023, even though the outcome is likely to be ambiguous and protracted. While according to official statistics, Laos ...

Relieved of the need to keep its currency afloat, the central bank could focus on addressing the country’s worsening foreign debt crisis. Laos posted an annual average growth in its gross domestic ...

SINGAPORE—With a sinking currency, dwindling foreign-exchange reserves and hefty debt repayments to China and other creditors falling due this year and next, the tiny Southeast Asian nation of Laos is ...

Most mornings your columnist must scroll through feeds of the latest Southeast Asian news headlines. The feed on Laos is, to put it mildly, beginning to get tiresome. For how many months can you read ...

VIENTIANE: Laos’ economy showed clear signs of stabilising in 2025 as reforms eased inflation, steadied the exchange rate, and supported growth, according to the World Bank’s latest Lao Economic ...

For the new leadership team under re-elected General Secretary Thongloun Sisoulith, the core task is to translate this agenda ...

Laos' government has longstanding plans to turn the landlocked country of 8 million people into "the battery of Southeast Asia" by exporting electricity generated by hydropower dams along the Mekong ...

A high-speed rail train is pictured in Vientiane, Laos, at the opening of a Chinese-built railway connecting the Lao capital to the Chinese city of Kunming, Dec. 3, 2021 (Kyodo News photo via AP ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted people’s livelihoods and tested healthcare systems around the world, and Laos is no exception. Its economy was hit particularly hard given its reliance on tourism, ...

1. Following substantial economic growth and development over the last two decades, some of the limits of Lao PDR’s growth model are now apparent. Since 2000, the country has been among the fastest ...