Vientiane

Asia-Europe leaders in Laos vow to promote free trade

6 Nov 2012

Asian and European leaders on Tuesday renounced protectionism and vowed to promote free trade at a major summit in communist Laos, officials said.

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European leaders in Laos to seek Asian support on debt crisis

5 Nov 2012

Dozens of European and Asian leaders gathered in impoverished Laos on Monday for a major summit dominated by the euro zone debt crisis and growing territorial tensions in the region.

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Asian Games 'a golden opportunity'

30 Apr 2010

Hosting the Asian Games will help Hong Kong become one of the world's big cities, said sports chief Timothy Fok Tsun-ting, who called on the government to show the ambition to move the city...

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Travellers' checks

4 Oct 2009

Swing into action

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Vientiane

25 Feb 2007

Laos' sleepy capital takes its name from the Indochina era, although the city has been important to the area since at least the 14th century.

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Swire puts Vientiane on the tourist track

4 Aug 2006

A three-day, two-night package to the Laotian capital Vientiane is being offered by Swire Travel.

Prices start from HK$3,690 and include a return flight via Bangkok, breakfast,...

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Alex Lo

We need a sober view of sexual violence

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Another Quiet American

by Brett Dakin

Asia Books $90

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Laos - the long, troubled decade

Five people were shot dead when a battered bus trundling through rugged northeastern Laos was ambushed two weekends ago. For once, not all the raiders escaped scot-free: five of them were killed...

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Authorities try to dampen water festival celebrations

The New Year water festival may reveal the strong ties between the ancient cultures of Laos and Thailand but authorities in Vientiane are insisting that is where any modern similarities must stop...

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dead Laos

THE CHRISTMAS BEFORE last, and almost at the last possible minute, I went to Laos. The Government had just changed the entry rules: previously, you had to send your passport to Bangkok, cross your...

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Connoisseurs, handle with care

It is an old socialist case of what goes around, comes around.

In Southeast Asia's swankier quarters, bars are springing up all over the place reminiscent of pre-revolution Cuba -...

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Warning reveals fears for economy

Last week's unusual warning from the Lao leadership about the need to beat corruption and curb the country's bureaucracy has raised fears the regional economic crisis may be having a deep impact...

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