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This video grab provided by Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin, shows rescuers evacuating the first of five villagers, center, who had been trapped in a cave in Xaisomboun province, Laos, Friday, May 29, 2026. (Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin via AP)

Rescuers search for alternative route to reach 2 missing in a flooded Laos cave

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

In this image released by Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin, rescuers try to reach people who have been trapped in a cave in Xaisomboun province, Laos, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin via AP)

Heavy rains threaten to delay search for 2 people still missing in Laos cave

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

This image provided by the Association Of Volunteers For Lao People, shows rescuers after they safely evacuated the villagers, who had been trapped in a cave in Xaisomboun province, Laos, Saturday, May 30 , 2026. (Association Of Volunteers For Lao People via AP)

Rescuers free 4 men who had been trapped in a flooded Laos cave, search for 2 still missing

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

In this image released by Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin, rescuers try to reach people who have been trapped in a cave in Xaisomboun province, Laos, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin via AP)

Five villagers missing in a flooded Laos cave for more than a week have been found alive

Associated Press

In this release Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin, rescuers work to reach seven people who have been trapped in a cave in Xaisomboun province, Laos, Monday, May 25, 2026. (Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin via AP)

Search continues for seven villagers trapped in a flooded Laos cave

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

In this release Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin, rescuers work to reach seven people who have been trapped in a cave in Xaisomboun province, Laos, Monday, May 25, 2026. (Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin via AP)

Search continues for 7 villagers trapped in a flooded cave in Laos

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

In this release Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin, rescuers work to reach seven people who have been trapped in a cave in Xaisomboun province, Laos, Monday, May 25, 2026. (Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin via AP)

Rescuers race to reach 7 trapped in a Laos cave after flash floods block exit

Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, left, and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, right, shake hands ahead of a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit, in Kananaskis, Alberta, on June 17, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan, Korea eager to cut deal before Aug. 1 tariff deadline

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Thai people with faces stained with paint take part in the Songkran water festival to celebrate the Thai New Year in Prachinburi Province, Thailand, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Southeast Asia water festivals begin, but earthquake recovery blunts Myanmar’s celebrations

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

A foreign tourist rests near a swimming pool at Nana Backpackers hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Laos government pledges justice in mass alcohol poisoning case that has killed 6 tourists

Associated Press

Health officials come out of Nana Backpackers hostel after checking documents in Vang Vieng, Laos, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Second Australian teen dies in tainted alcohol case in Laos that has killed 6 tourists

Associated Press

A doctor comes out of the hospital where poisoned foreign tourists were admitted in Vang Vieng, Laos, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Sixth tourist dead after suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Duong Duc Toan, the manager of Nana Backpack hostel displays a bottle of vodka, in the bar of the hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

American dead after possible methanol poisoning in Laos

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Foreign tourists have a drink at a night club at Nana Backpack hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Australian who drank tainted alcohol in Laos has died, raising toll to 4, including an American

By David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sideline of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, Pool)

The U.S. and China air global differences as their top diplomats meet for sixth time since last year

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

A Chinese high-speed train moves across a bridge over the Mekong River, north of the Laotian city of Luang Prabang on Dec. 12, 2023. Laos has grown increasingly beholden to its giant neighbor to the north with massive amounts of debt to Chinese state banks for multiple infrastructure projects, including a new high-speed rail line across the country, said Muhammad Faizal, with the Institute of Defense and Strategic studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. (AP Photo/David Rising)

Tensions simmering in the South China Sea and violence in Myanmar as Laos takes over ASEAN chair

By David Rising - Associated Press

This UGC photo made available by a source wishing to remain anonymous shows Chinese rights lawyer Lu Siwei on a road, at an undisclosed location, around 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Vientiane, Laos, Thursday, July 27, 2023, as he headed south to the border with Thailand. Lu, stripped of his license for taking on sensitive cases, has been arrested in the Southeast Asian country of Laos, with activists and family members worried he will be deported back to China where he could face prison time.(Anonymous Source via AP)

A rights lawyer who was fleeing China has been arrested in neighboring Laos

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

Sri Lankan Buddhist monks wait for the arrival of President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Air Port in Mattala, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 18, 2013. The Chinese-funded airport built in the president’s hometown away from most of the country’s population is so barely used that elephants have been spotted wandering on its tarmac. (AP Photo/Sanka Gayashan, File)

China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse

By Bernard Condon - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Russia woos Southeast Asia in search for allies, markets amid Ukraine blowback

By Richard S. Ehrlich — Special to The Washington Times

U.S.-China rivalry plays out in remote Thai town

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times