This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
24. Jan 2013
The gunslinger state of Laos
development, economy, environment, Human rights, InFocus, Laos
On December 15, on his way back from work, the Laotian director, activist and award winner, Sombath Somphone, mysteriously disappeared. The last people to see him, according to leaked surveillance footage, were the Laotian authorities at a police control post, where he was pulled over, and then driven away in a different car. Despite that, […]
Read more23. May 2011
Elections but no “flower revolution” in Laos
China, democracy, development, environment, government, green energy, InFocus, Laos, politics, renewable energy
By Kristina Jönsson Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Elections tend to receive a lot of media attention these days—Laos being an obvious exception. Still, in recent months two elections have taken place in Laos, one to the National Assembly (NA) and one to the Party Congress. Even if they by nature do […]
Read more20. Oct 2008
Protecting the rural poor against economic consequences of major illness: a challenge for Asian transitional economies. Notes fr
cambodia, China, health, illness, InFocus, Laos, poverty
Kristina Jönsson,
Ph.D, Researcher,
Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden