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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, left, and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, right, shake hands ahead of a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit, in Kananaskis, Alberta, on June 17, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan, Korea eager to cut deal before Aug. 1 tariff deadline

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Thai people with faces stained with paint take part in the Songkran water festival to celebrate the Thai New Year in Prachinburi Province, Thailand, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Southeast Asia water festivals begin, but earthquake recovery blunts Myanmar’s celebrations

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

A foreign tourist rests near a swimming pool at Nana Backpackers hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Laos government pledges justice in mass alcohol poisoning case that has killed 6 tourists

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Health officials come out of Nana Backpackers hostel after checking documents in Vang Vieng, Laos, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Second Australian teen dies in tainted alcohol case in Laos that has killed 6 tourists

Associated Press

A doctor comes out of the hospital where poisoned foreign tourists were admitted in Vang Vieng, Laos, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Sixth tourist dead after suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Duong Duc Toan, the manager of Nana Backpack hostel displays a bottle of vodka, in the bar of the hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

American dead after possible methanol poisoning in Laos

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Foreign tourists have a drink at a night club at Nana Backpack hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Australian who drank tainted alcohol in Laos has died, raising toll to 4, including an American

By David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sideline of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, Pool)

The U.S. and China air global differences as their top diplomats meet for sixth time since last year

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

A Chinese high-speed train moves across a bridge over the Mekong River, north of the Laotian city of Luang Prabang on Dec. 12, 2023. Laos has grown increasingly beholden to its giant neighbor to the north with massive amounts of debt to Chinese state banks for multiple infrastructure projects, including a new high-speed rail line across the country, said Muhammad Faizal, with the Institute of Defense and Strategic studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. (AP Photo/David Rising)

Tensions simmering in the South China Sea and violence in Myanmar as Laos takes over ASEAN chair

By David Rising - Associated Press

This UGC photo made available by a source wishing to remain anonymous shows Chinese rights lawyer Lu Siwei on a road, at an undisclosed location, around 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Vientiane, Laos, Thursday, July 27, 2023, as he headed south to the border with Thailand. Lu, stripped of his license for taking on sensitive cases, has been arrested in the Southeast Asian country of Laos, with activists and family members worried he will be deported back to China where he could face prison time.(Anonymous Source via AP)

A rights lawyer who was fleeing China has been arrested in neighboring Laos

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

Sri Lankan Buddhist monks wait for the arrival of President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Air Port in Mattala, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 18, 2013. The Chinese-funded airport built in the president’s hometown away from most of the country’s population is so barely used that elephants have been spotted wandering on its tarmac. (AP Photo/Sanka Gayashan, File)

China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse

By Bernard Condon - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Russia woos Southeast Asia in search for allies, markets amid Ukraine blowback

By Richard S. Ehrlich — Special to The Washington Times

U.S.-China rivalry plays out in remote Thai town

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Little Laos makes big play in cryptocurrency, raising environmental fears

By Richard S. Ehrlich

This July 21, 2012, file photo shows terraced rice paddies outside a Lahu hill tribe village high above Thailand’s Mae Kok River. The region known as the Golden Triangle was once one of the world’s most prolific regions for growing the opium poppy, but government programs and aggressive eradication efforts have succeeding in wiping out most of the illegal crop. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Shadowy Chinese casino magnate eyes a business empire in Laos

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to the Washington Times

An Oct. 16, 2020 handout photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Bounchan Keola. Keola, a former inmate firefighter who was injured fighting the Zogg fire in October and turned over to ICE weeks later. Keola appeared via, video, in a news conference on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020 urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to halt the practice of turning over released inmates to federal immigration officials. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP)

California inmate fought wildfires, now faces deportation

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 27, 2020, file photo shows a sign at a Starbucks Coffee store in south Seattle. Starbucks said Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, it plans to open an outlet in Laos as it expands its more than 10,000 stores in Asian countries. The company said it plans to open the shop in the Laotian capital Vientiane by next summer. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Starbucks targets new market, in coffee exporting Laos

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This cover image released by Simon &amp; Schuster shows &quot;Run Me to Earth&quot; by Paul Yoon. (Simon &amp; Schuster via AP)

Review: Novel by Paul Yoon offers rare view of war-torn Laos

By KENDAL WEAVER - Associated Press

Earthquake shakes Thailand, Laos, sways Bangkok high-rises

Associated Press

'The Second Biggest Nothing' (book jacket)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Second Biggest Nothing’

By Muriel Dobbin