The US dropped more than 270 million bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War. An estimated 30% of the bombs remain unexploded and are scattered across the country. Some villagers use those bombs as scrap ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Not enough time to get out': Laos village caught in burst dam deluge By Panu Wongcha-um and James Pearson KOKHONG, Laos (Reuters) ...

Carol Cassidy started her shop in 1990; sees "beautiful side of globalization." VIENTIANE, Laos, July 22, 2008 — -- In the northern Lao village of Pakor, where 100 people live along a few hundred ...

Chico >> Children don’t have pencils or paper in their classrooms. Farm animals roam freely with residents of the villages, where there are no flush-toilets and electricity was introduced just three ...

The bloated carcasses of pigs and cows float in the knee-high flood waters covering the Laos village of Hoi Kong, as mud-caked residents pick through the remnants of homes destroyed by a dam collapse ...

BANGKOK -- Flooding from a South Korean-constructed hydroelectric dam in Laos left several people dead and hundreds missing, state media said Tuesday. Rescue efforts were underway as top government ...

Decades after the Vietnam War ended, there are around 80 million unexploded bombs left in Laos. Despite the danger they pose, some villagers use the bombs to build their homes. A woman poses at the ...