Today six great bridges span the river. One is at Thakhek, where the transit distance across Laos between the growing economies of Thailand and Vietnam is shortest, only 90 miles. In Thakhek I ...

A project aiming to foster water and environment security in the Ma and Neun - Ca river basins and related coastal areas in Vietnam and Laos was launched in Hanoi on Tuesday. Speaking at the event ...

Caught up in America’s war on Vietnam (Laos is the most bombed country in ... southeast Asia’s greatest river, which also hurtles through China, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam.

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 ...