Full Coverage: Laos

07.08.2007 The World Bank and the Asian Development BankÂ’s "model" hydropower project - Nam Theun in Laos - is fast becoming a replica of past dam mistakes, says a new report.
From: The International Rivers Network

10.07.2007 More than 7,000 Hmong refugees in Thailand are in danger of being returned to Laos, where they fear political persecution for cooperating with the U.S. during the Vietnam War. Emmanuel Drouhin explains.

30.03.2007 The Lao military is using the excuse of a long-concluded war to continue attacks on a destitute population of Hmong jungle-dwellers, says a new human rights report.

30.05.2006 A new Lao Television drama developed from child trafficking case studies follows the life of a trafficked teenage girl and teaches the country's youth to "Be Smart, Be Safe."

17.01.2006 The Lao WomenÂ’s Union has opened their country's first shelter for women and girls who have suffered abuse through domestic violence or trafficking.

15.06.2005 Laos National Radio recently hosted a workshop familiarise radio technicians with designing digital radio studio production system in Vientiane, capital of Laos, from 2 to 13 May 2005.

19.05.2004 VCD modules that promote learning and reflection have been developed for migrant girls crossing the Mekong River into Thailand, as well as other groups of at-risk youth. This pilot, developed under a project of the US-based Education Development Center, seeks to demonstrate how VCD
technology - already very popular in the region - can help these girls before they find themselves in compromising situations.

05.04.2004 The use of ICT in non-formal education programmes to foster participation of disadvantaged people in literacy, basic education and continuing education activities is at the centre of projects in Indonesia, Lao PDR, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uzbekistan that UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All has launched with funds from Japan.

16.01.2004 Various factors make education difficult for girls from ethnic groups in Lao People's Democratic Republic. However, there is inspiration at the nearby Nongpet secondary school. For example, Phongsamay, 18, is one of many girls preparing for university entrance exams.

03.10.2003 Ongoing conflict between military forces and minority groups, such as the Hmong, in isolated areas of Laos is resulting in the death of dozens of civilians, especially children, as the Laotian army has hemmed in communities preventing them from hunting and foraging for food, according to reports received by Amnesty International.

24.06.2003 The government is strengthening infrastructure related to information and communication technologies in primary, secondary and tertiary level schools to achieve 50 per cent e-literacy by year 2007. The effort will increase competence and nurture creativity.

12.02.2003 A remote village in Laos - without electricity or telephone lines - will today be hooked up to the Internet via a bicycle-powered computer linked to wireless antennae on tree tops, water towers, and roofs. One of the project's supporters explains how the initiative got off the ground.

09.01.2003 To some, communication can be just as basic a need as food or water. This is evident in rural Laos, where an impoverished community has asked for help in establishing Internet access.

27.11.2002 The government has initiated a poverty reduction project by strengthening formal primary education and non formal education. The project will target minority communities and promote access of boys and girls to education.

26.07.2002 Prisoners in Laos are frequently stripped of the most basic human rights and subjected to torture, a leading rights group said in a report issued today.

17.06.2002 More than 12,000 Thais voiced their opposition to a controversial inter-government plan to blow up rapids and small isles in the Mekong River.

14.03.2002 A literacy project has enabled many of Laos' ethnic minority women have access to some form of education and a chance to improve their lives and to help in the development of their communities.

19.12.2001 Thousands of impoverished children in Laos will get food in return for going to school as part of a project that seeks to raise both nutrition and literacy levels in the Southeast Asian nation.

19.12.2001 Thousands of impoverished Laotioan children will get food in return for going to school as part of a project that seeks to raise both nutrition and literacy levels.

18.12.2001 The World Food Programme will launch a US$6-million programme with the government of Laos early next year to provide nutritious meals to about 35,000 schoolchildren in the country.