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 ...

Landlocked Laos is comprised of thickly forested and mountainous terrain. The Mekong River forms a large part of the country's western border with Thailand. Most children in Laos live in rural areas, ...

A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house ...

However, they could not establish a local Church. The first missionaries were the Jesuits who reached in Laos from Tongking (Vitenam). The evangelization efforts of the missionaries of the Paris ...

She hands me another wrapped in sticky tape. “This one is fine.” I’m in southeastern Laos near the Vietnamese border. Here, Sawan and her team work to remove unexploded American bombs ...