A train carrying goods and produce between China, Laos and Thailand – and back to China – has made its first journey along the newly completed Lao-China railway.The train carrying frozen food and about 280 tons of fresh vegetables on 19 cars left Kunmi…

Villagers in northern Laos who will be displaced by the massive Luang Prabang Dam project are demanding five times higher compensation than the government is offering, saying flooding from the dam will wipe out their farmland.Residents of 12 villages i…