LOWELL — Red flags with three white elephants hung from every tree surrounding City Hall, a representation of what the people of Laos have been fighting for: their freedom. The flag is the symbol of ...

Xinhua President Cai Mingzhao speaks at the medal award ceremony in Vientiane, Laos on Feb. 2, 2018. (Xinhua/Qin Qing) VIENTIANE, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government awarded freedom medals to ...

LOWELL — When Linkham Xaycitdet fled Laos in 1980, the 23-year-old had already endured five years of forced labor in a relocation camp in the desolate mountains of the country’s northern region. After ...

UNESCO, the Lao PDR Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) ...