1962年2月，在老挝的一个山谷，老挝皇家军队正在抵抗北越支持的老挝爱国阵线（Pathet Lao）部队的进攻，现场炮击不断。这场战斗不仅仅是老挝内部两派势力的对抗，更是冷战背景下大国博弈的缩影。美国《生活》记者约翰·多米尼克拍摄 ...

Kong Le began by reinforcing his garrison with 2,000 Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas from the nearby jungles. Then he turned for further aid to his good friend, Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov.

At Ketsana’s funeral last week, Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le, who once worked hand in glove with the Pathet Lao, made no effort to conceal his disenchantment with his former cohorts.

The Harvard graduate, Arthur D. Stillman, and his companions, one American and two Laotians, were killed by a rocket fired into their jeep by Pathet Lao forces.

He goes with June 10, 1951. The date makes him 8 when the Pathet Lao – a political movement in Laos allied with the Vietnamese communists – expanded its power.

1975 - The Pathet Lao - renamed the Lao People's Front - seizes power and replaces the monarchy with a communist government.

1960 - Fighting breaks out between the Royal Lao Army and the communist North Vietnamese and Soviet Union-backed Pathet Lao forces, leading to civil war.

The Pathet Lao defeated the royalist forces in 1975, and Laos has been a communist state ever since. Foreign missionaries were expelled or fled that year, and now less than 2% of Laotians are ...

The Pathet Lao victory in Laos’s civil war came in large part thanks to North Vietnam’s assistance. The two countries grew closer after 1975 and Vietnam helped Laos set up a Communist ...

Professor Colin Prentice, who has died aged 79, survived 33 days of captivity by communist Pathet Lao guerrillas in the 1960s and later built an international reputation for his work on blood ...