Laos' Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, January 6, 2020. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via ...

Staff members of the China Railway Group Limited (CREC) transport the medical face masks at the stockhouse of Lao Health Ministry in Vientiane, capital of Laos, April 22, 2020. Huang Hong, general ...

Laos' government has longstanding plans to turn the landlocked country of 8 million people into "the battery of Southeast Asia" by exporting electricity generated by hydropower dams along the Mekong ...