Dec 18 (Reuters) - After decades of isolation, communist Laos is on a drive to court foreign investors to tap its natural resources and energy potential and steer the country out of poverty by 2020.

For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics. Fifty ...

Archeologist Dougald O’Reilly speaks about his work on Laos' Plain of Jars and tracing the region's pre-historical societies. The World Heritage site in Laos is endangered by mega-projects and Mekong ...