The Black-throated Laughingthrush lives in forests from southern China through Indochina. It usually moves in pairs or small groups and searches for food in the lower parts of trees and shrubs.
Adults of the nominate subspecies have a black face and throat, white ear-coverts, a slate-blue crown, and olive-brown upperparts. The sexes are similar.
It uses evergreen broadleaf and mixed forest, regenerating woodland, grass, and scrub. It usually forages low in trees and shrubs in pairs or small groups.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.