No coffee, no coffee,” repeated the security guard. His smile stood in stark contrast to his faded camouflage fatigues and ...

But hidden in the quiet landlocked nation of Laos, one of Southeast Asia's most underrated vacation countries, is arguably ...

The silvery Cessna Wren scudded high above the Plain of Jars, and the tiny man in rumpled fatigues peered down through eyes red-rimmed with exhaustion. Below him the wind moved casually over apple ...

For three years now, Laos has marked the advance of spring by nearly falling into the hands of the Communists. Last week was no exception. Heavy fighting suddenly erupted on the Plain of Jars, and, ...

The U.S. dropped over 2 million tons of ordnance on Laos, including cluster bombs, in the 1960s and '70s. To this day, many people are killed, crippled and disfigured by them, writes Lewis M. Simons.

Celebrations took place in Xieng Khuang province to formally mark Unesco’s listing of the Plain of Jars as Laos’ third world heritage site.

The formal declaration of the Plain of Jars as a world heritage site took place during the 43rd Session of the World Heritage Committee in Baku, Azerbaijan, on July 10, 2019. Already a subscriber?

The giant stone jars of Assam are strikingly similar to the thousands clustered on the Plain of Jars in Laos, which date to the late 1000s BCE.

Ask archaeologists working in Laos and their answers are not much more precise. The first systematic study of the Plain of Jars was done in the 1930s by Madeleine Colani, a French geologist, who ...

Popularly called Laos’s Plain of Jars, this unique place became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2019, though its origins are still shrouded in mystery.