An international effort is underway in rural areas of Laos, where 80 percent of the population lives, to remove the bombs. But the sudden halt of funding from USAID is likely to have ramifications on ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For days up there on the Plain of Jars I’d been trying to capture an image, find a metaphor, crystallize an idea that ...

Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, yet, paradoxically, life revolves around water. Running the length of the mainly mountainous country is the mighty Mekong River, which floods ...

"I love things that go booom," says Marine Staff Sgt. Steve Mannon, with one of the many Vietnam War-era rounds uncovered at the crash site. Sgt. Christophe Paul/U.S. Army Commuting by chopper ...

More than $1 trillion in Chinese loans to the developing world is building sparkling infrastructure, but the cost is still being tallied People at the artificial That Luang Lake in the That Luang ...