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President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has appointed a number of new ambassadors of Kazakhstan.

• 03 сентября 2014, 12:04

A Lao military plane carrying top officials including the defence minister crashed on Saturday in the north of the communist country, a Thai official said, without giving details of any casualties.

• 17 мая 2014, 14:42

A dam which Laos plans to build across the Mekong River could wipe out critically endangered dolphins in downstream Cambodia.

• 20 февраля 2014, 15:46

Laos said Friday at least 17 bodies had been recovered after a plane plummeted into the Mekong River killing all on board in the country's worst known air disaster.

• 18 октября 2013, 15:23

Rescuers searched for bodies Thursday after a Lao Airlines plane carrying dozens of people, about half of them foreigners, crashed in the Mekong River with everybody on board believed dead.

• 17 октября 2013, 14:56

From a devilish-looking bat to a frog that sings like a bird, scientists have identified 126 new species in the Greater Mekong area, the WWF said Tuesday in a new report detailing discoveries in 2011.

• 18 декабря 2012, 10:36

Top European leaders jetting into Laos for a major summit are on a mission to reassure Asia that their crisis-hit region is "still an economic power".

• 05 ноября 2012, 10:56

After years of preparation, communist Laos is on the verge of joining the World Trade Organisation, a milestone that the small landlocked nation owes to a slew of reforms it must now enforce.

• 05 октября 2012, 11:44

Asian countries dominate a league table of economies most at risk from earthquakes, floods, storms and other natural hazards, according to research published on Wednesday.

• 16 августа 2012, 11:11