The largest infrastructure project in Laos, the Nam Theun 2 hydropower facility, has started commercial operations, the power company said Wednesday. Four turbines on Monday began supplying the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand with Nam Theun 2 hydropower facility 1,000 megawatts of power, Nam Theun 2 Power Company (NTPC) said in a statement. Sales of electricity to the Laotian ...

A senior US official will head Sunday on a trip through Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, part of the Obama administration's renewed focus on Southeast Asia. Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, will also travel to Japan, becoming the latest senior official to visit the close US ally to smooth out ...

Around 850,000 migrant workers in Thailand have met a deadline to start a registration process, the labour ministry said Thursday, as rights groups made renewed calls for a halt to the policy. Thailand had ordered 1.3 million eligible citizens from neighbouring Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos to begin the process of registering and verifying their nationality by Sunday or ...

Vietnam needs to improve its human rights record if it wants to build a close relationship with the United States, a senior US envoy said Wednesday ahead of a visit to the region. Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for Asia, told a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he will travel next week to Vietnam and ...