I traveled to Laos to experience its new China-made railway. The one-hour trip revealed a countryside that's burned from farming. The air was so toxic that soot and ash were falling from the sky. Laos ...

BEIJING (AP) — Laos, a nation of 7 million people wedged between China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links China's poor southwest to foreign markets but ...

BEIJING, Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As of Monday, the China-Laos Railway has facilitated more than 43 million passenger trips and transported 48.3 million tons of goods during its three years of ...

Exports of agricultural products from ASEAN members to China are accelerating, with Laos becoming a fresh example as the country sent the first full-train cassava starch export to China on Saturday.

Laos went from barely having a railway to becoming a critical link between China and mainland Southeast Asia. This video explores the $20 billion China Laos railway, the engineering across mountains ...

VIENTIANE (Laotian Times): The world’s longest train journey now runs from Singapore to Portugal, covering nearly 19,000 kilometers across 13 countries and linking South-East Asia to Western Europe ...

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Laos is one of the few remaining communist countries in the world. Some two-thirds of Laotians still live in rural communities. But a shiny new railway funded by China now cuts through the countryside ...