On Th Photisarat heading out of town to the southwest. Go early. The main home of the late King Sisavang Vong and home to the tiny gold alloy Buddha the town is named after; about $4. Both run by ...

In a town full of monasteries, this one justifiably is the most visited; about $2.50. The main home of the late King Sisavang Vong and home to the tiny gold alloy Buddha the town is named after ...

Many centuries before a king is born, his tree bursts through the earth as a green finger.—Laotian saying Ever since he died last October, King Sisavang Vong has been waiting. His body, ...

As the battle shaped up, King Sisavang Vong appealed to the U.N. to recognize the invasion of Laos as an act of external aggression, rather than as another phase of the Indo-China war, as the ...

Old King Sisavang Vong, who reigns in the royal capital of Luang Prabang, rates a white umbrella. Lesser noble fry rate umbrellas of varying hues and sizes.

In Laos one rainy day last week, Premier Tiao Somsanith, 47, assembled the top members of his Cabinet and flew north from Vientiane to the royal city of Luangprabang on a matter of some urgency ...

Last week, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sisavang Vong, King of the Laotians, and French President Vincent Auriol signed a treaty establishing Laos as an independent nation within the French Union.