Members of the Miss Lao New Year pageant from left, Julie Vilaylack, Vanyda Boulom, Tiffany Boone, Breanna Lee and Nola Phonkaseumsouk gather together in the front row to pray and give offerings to ...

Khao piek sen, Lao chicken noodle soup, has become my new cold-day craving. Chewy, handmade rice noodles swim in a rich and ...

A recent conference, a trip overseas and a reconnecting with a sister city have offered an opportunity to strengthen bonds between Elgin and its Lao community. Last weekend, and for the first time, ...

Mountains were visible all around us as the plane stopped in front of an airport about the size of a family-style chain restaurant. As soon as I got off the plane in Laos, it was obvious the air here ...

Hundreds of these otherworldly beings are grouped together in a park called Spirit City, which was constructed in the 1950s by one of the most unusual men in the modern histories of Laos and Thailand.

VIENG XAY, Laos, (Reuters Life!) - For more than 30 years, Laos' "hidden city", home of its top communist guerrilla fighters, remained exactly that: hidden. Now Laos is opening the secret limestone ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

Officer Eddie Thiphasouk of the Sioux City Police Department came to the United States in 1986 from a refugee camp in Thailand with little more than the T-shirt and shorts he was wearing. "It was a ...