The village itself is small but charming ... So if you're headed to northern Laos, skip the flight and take the slow boat. It's not just a way to get there-it's an adventure in itself.

The town of Luang Namtha is the gateway to the hill-tribe villages of northern Laos. Pou Villa (book through a third-party site such as agoda.com) is a tidy guesthouse with good breakfasts.

The "blast" happened on Friday at a Chinese store in Oudomxay province, according to the Chinese consulate in Luang Prabang.

Scientists unearthed the tooth in caves within the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos, where they suspected Denisovans could ... Children from a local village guided Shackelford to the cave, where an ...

were killed and many others injured on Friday in a fire and explosion that occurred at a Chinese-owned shop in Nami village of Xay district in northern Laos' Oudomxay province, according to the ...

and even between the villages differences occur. The Akha migrated in stages from Yunnan (China), where the great majority still lives, into eastern Burma (Myanmar), northern Laos, and the north-west ...