All news on the topic: Laos

The number of British nationals detained overseas on drug trafficking charges has surged more than fourfold over three years, official figures show, alongside a Government warning that penalties include life imprisonment and the death sentence.

The shop is dark and deserted. Though the door is open, there is clearly no expectation of any customers walking in off the street. Visits are likely by appointment and from a specific clientele. This shop is part of an organised crime network. What is being sold is highly illegal and incredibly unethical.

Astens of thousands are freed, female survivors are increasingly reporting gender-based violence in the compounds, previously thought to hold mainly men.

Four people who were trapped for over a week in a flooded cave in Laos have been safely rescued by emergency teams.

Five of the seven people who were trapped in a flooded cave in Laos for a week have been found alive.

A factory owner has been arrested by police in a major breakthrough in the mass methanol poisoning in Laos that left six backpackers dead.

A British woman has become the fifth person to die from a suspected mass poisoning with methanol in Laos.