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Thailand and Laos affirm that no obstacles will be encountered in building the third and fourth Thai-Lao 'friendhip' bridges respectively. Both will be completed in 2011 as planned.

A network of caves promises to further illuminate the "secret war" the United States waged in Laos against the North Vietnamese, but it also may help open a region in need of tourism revenue. 

The Vientiane Scooter Club recently conducted its annual rally from Laos to Vietnam, a journey which saw many of its members rediscover their origins. A group of urban middle class Lao nationals of Vietnamese and Chinese descent, the club members are driven by a desire to find their own authentic place in Lao society.

The club is one of a few new social groups to have emerged in recent years along with greater economic and cultural liberalization in Laos. On their rallies through the countryside they spread a road safety message and donate equipment to rural schools on a painstakingly restored fleet of forty-year-old Italian Piaggio Vespa motor scooters. 

Laos held its first ever elephant parade Saturday to honour the beasts' considerable contributions to the country.

In the town of Bo Ten in Laos, near the border with China, local people are training to be card dealers so they can get jobs at a soon-to-rise casino owned by a Chinese company.

Thailand has halted the involuntary repatriation of more than 150 ethnic Hmong refugees to Laos after receiving assurances from the U.S. and elsewhere that they can be resettled in third countries, the Foreign Ministry said.