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January 2024

  • Film still: Samsara (2023), directed by Lois Patiño

    Samsara review – a playfully mysterious invitation to contemplate death

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s influence can be traced in Spanish film-maker Lois Patiño’s whimsical meditation on the Buddhist cycle of life

December 2023

  • The Xiamen city skyline on the Chinese mainland seen from Taiwan's Kinmen islands.

    Escaping Xi’s China by paddleboard: ‘I rushed into the water and thought if they catch me, they catch me’

    Dissidents face an uncertain future in Taiwan and South Korea after fleeing

November 2023

  • Birdsong - documentary about the Hmong people of northern Laos

    The Guardian documentary
    Birdsong: the dying whistled language of the Hmong people in northern Laos

    Exploring the whistling traditions of the Hmong people of northern Laos, whose language straddles the boundary between music and speech, this film witnesses a collision of ancient tradition with modern urban life

August 2023

  • Lu Siwei

    Rights groups call on Laos to release lawyer held after fleeing China

    Sixty-eight organisations sign letter amid fears Lu Siwei could be deported at request of Chinese authorities

July 2023

  • Chinese rights lawyer Lu Siwei at an undisclosed location in Laos on Thursday

    Human rights lawyer fleeing China is arrested in Laos

    Activists and family members fear Lu Siwei will be deported back to China, where he could be sent to prison

May 2023

  • Women drinking bottles of water in Kolkata, India during the April heatwave

    Climate breakdown made southern Asia heatwave at least 2C hotter, study finds

    Temperatures up to 45C recorded in April in parts of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos
  • A man carries an umbrella to shade from the sun along a street in Hanoi.

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Vietnam and Laos set records for highest-ever temperatures

    Records for countries broken just weeks after temperature in Thailand rose above 45C for the first time
  • A market in the Laos capital, Vientiane

    Laos activist Anousa Luangsuphom shot in cafe attack

    Rights groups call for urgent and independent investigation into shooting of government critic

April 2023

  • Workers move blocks of ice into a storage unit at a market during heatwave conditions, in Bangkok.

    ‘Endless record heat’ in Asia as highest April temperatures recorded

  • A bomb-clearance technician from the Mines Advisory Group holds an Erbinger Large Loop detector, Xieng Khoung, Laos.

    ‘I don’t want more children to suffer what I did’: the 50-year fight to clear US bombs from Laos

  • People sheltering from the sun under umbrellas cross a street during a heatwave in Bangkok, Thailand, last week.

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: heatwave grips parts of Asia and heavy snow hits Scandinavia

  • A taxi driver is seen drinking water from a bottle during afternoon heat in Kolkata as a heatwave grips Asia

    Severe heatwave engulfs Asia causing deaths and forcing schools to close

November 2022

  • CAMBODIA-USA-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY-SUMMIT<br>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) attends the East Asia Summit Gala dinner in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 12, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

    Albanese meeting with Chinese premier heralds potential thaw in diplomatic freeze

    Meeting with Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, is first between leaders of Australia and China since 2019

May 2022

  • The molar attributed to a young female child of the extinct human species called the Denisovans

    Child’s 130,000-year-old tooth could offer clues to extinct human relative

    Researchers believe the discovery in a Laos cave proves that Denisovans lived in the warm tropics of southeast Asia

February 2022

  • ‘Chilling and wholly original’ … The Long Walk.

    The Long Walk review – inventive Laotian horror of ghosts and time travel

    A magnetic central performance from Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy anchors Mattie Do’s excellently spooky tale of destructive hubris

January 2022

  • Popa langur monkey

    Ghostly monkey and slug snake among 224 new species found in Mekong region

  • This photo taken in 1993 and released by WWF shows a Saola in Vietnam when it was captured. It was one of two Saola captured alive in central Vietnam, but both died months later in captivity. Saola, one of the rarest and most threatened mammals on earth has been caught on camera in Vietnam for the first time in 15 years in September in central Vietnam, renewing hope for the recovery of the species, international conservation group WWF said Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/WWF)

    The age of extinction
    Scientists step up hunt for ‘Asian unicorn’, one of world’s rarest animals

November 2021

  • Individual gymnastic events, Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - 03 Aug 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/REX/Shutterstock (12245518w) Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - USA gymnast Sunisa Lee competes in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Women's Balance Beam Final at Ariake Gymnastics Centre. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) Individual gymnastic events, Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - 03 Aug 2021

    Olympic gold medalist Sunisa Lee says she was pepper-sprayed in racist attack

    The gymnast was waiting for an Uber in Los Angeles with friends when a car sped by and passengers yelled anti-Asian slurs

November 2020

  • Bounchan Keola

    Today in Focus
    He risked his life fighting the Californian wildfires, now he faces deportation

    The Guardian US reporter Sam Levin speaks to Bounchan Keola, who is being detained by Ice and facing deportation to Laos

March 2020

  • Travellers await flights out of Peru at the Jorge Chavez airport in Lima

    'I just want to go home': thousands of Australians stranded overseas amid coronavirus chaos

    People caught by cancelled flights and closed borders say they are trying to heed the advice to return home, but can’t
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