On April 26, Igor Driesmans, the EU's ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), visited Laos where discussions focused on the communist government's preparations for taking over the annually-rotating ASEAN chairmanship next year.
Three days later, the well-known political activist Anousa "Jack" Luangsuphom was gunned down at a cafe in Vientiane, the capital. His family announced his death, yet another in a long list of Laotian dissenters who have been killed und...
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David Hutt is a research fellow at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) and the southeast Asia columnist at the Diplomat. As a journalist, he has reported on southeast Asian politics since 2014.