A Lao Airlines flight from the capital, Vientiane, crashed into the Mekong River as it was landing. There was no word of survivors among the 49 passengers and crew, The Bangkok Post reports. The ...

SHOTLIST: PAKSE, LAOS, 18 OCTOBER 2013, SOURCE: AFPTV - VAR of the coffin - VAR of the victims' photographs - WS of the funeral - MS of the a victims' family members at the funeral - VAR of the ...

49 people aboard%2C including passengers from 11 countries Flight from the Lao capital of Vientiane to Pakse in southern Laos crashed at about 4 p.m. Laos Airlines flight QV301 encountered bad weather ...

Lao Airlines is investigating that possibility that a plane crash that killed 49 people Wednesday was caused by “wind shear,” an airline official said. Wind shear – a sudden change in wind speed or ...

PAKSE, LaosPAKSE, Laos — Exasperated officials in Laos said Friday they lack the equipment and manpower to locate the fuselage and more than 20 bodies still unaccounted for two days after a plane ...

PAKSE, Laos — Rescuers in fishing boats pulled bodies from the muddy Mekong River on Thursday as officials in Laos ruled out finding survivors from a plane that crashed in stormy weather, killing 49 ...

Leklay Sivilay, the Lao Minister of Public Works and Transport -- Photo: Vientiane Times/ANN VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN): The Lao government will undertake a feasibility study on the construction ...

Pope Francis has named Bishop Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, apostolic vicar of Pakse, as the first ever cardinal in the impoverished, repressed Communist nation of Laos, a country where Catholics ...

Pope Francis has appointed Father Andrew Souksavath Nouane Asa, a native clergy and seminary professor, as the apostolic vicar of Pakse in Laos. Father Nouane, 50, is the second native bishop of the ...