The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, was signed virtually on Sunday on the sidelines of the annual summit of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Rescuers were searching Wednesday for villagers left missing when part of a dam broke in Laos, flooding the surrounding countryside and killing at least 19 people.

A hydroelectric dam in Laos has collapsed, releasing a torrent of water that swept away homes, killed several people and left hundreds more unaccounted for.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday called for the withdrawal of U.S. special forces troops from a group of islands in the southern Philippines, saying their presence could complicate offensives against Islamist militants notorious for beheading Westerners.

The brief meeting Wednesday night took a little sting out of the soured relations caused by Duterte's intemperate language in referring to Obama earlier this week.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged help to clear away the 80 million unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos a generation ago — more than 10 for every one of the country's 7 million people.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged the full implementation of sanctions against North Korea, a day after it fired ballistic missiles into the sea.

Almost half a century later, scars from the U.S. Air Force's bombings are still visible in Laos' Xieng Khouang Province, the area in the impoverished country most heavily bombed during the Vietnam War.

16x9 looked at the steps to take if a family member dies overseas and what role consular officials can play in the event of a death abroad.

Nara Pech and his two friends were travelling through Southeast Asia in January when he was found dead at Wattay International Airport in Laos.