Laos Travel News

SAN FRANCISCO a ' Furniture importer Zocalo has established a non-governmental organization to channel donations to a resource-starved orphanage in a mountainous region of Laos.

Si Sa Ket-based Aveeya Angkor Travel Co Ltd reported a loss of a few million from the cancellation of trips to famous Cambodian destinations - Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom.

The story is set in near future Asia; Thailand and Laos. Therea s war and confusion.

ASEAN senior officials link arms the ASEAN way during a break in the Special ASEAN-U.S. Senior Officials Meeting Saturday, Nov.

Laos News.Net Friday 6th November, 2009 Bangkok , Nov. 6 : A top US official, who was part of a recent high-level diplomatic visit to Burma, has downplayed prospects of the Obama administration's pragmatic engagements resulting in speedy democratic reforms in that country.

Posted in Own This City , Shopping by Rachel LeWinter on October 28th, 2009 at 6:45 pm Leekan Designs After 21 years in Soho, Leekan Designs has moved its shop to the Lower East Side.

A gateway to Vientiane and Laos, Nong Khai is a delightful destination endowed with fertile paddies, abundant fish, natural and manmade attractions skirting the Mekong River.

The Family Hotel Vientiane Laos is a new hotel situated on Phang Kham Road ; within walking distance of many restaurants and bars where visitors tend to gather in the city.

Chiang Mai is my favorite city in Thailand, it's also my favorite place to drink coffee.

Viet Nam continued to lead the list of foreign investors in Laos with a total registered capital of US$1.4 billion during the first nine months of this year, according to the Lao Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Expats and Thais in Thailand Love to Visit Other Countries for Weekend Trips, but Which Ones Are the Best? One of the perks of living in Thailand is all the other south east Asian countries that are so close by.

Tourism may be down worldwide, but Thailand has been especially hard hit due to political problems, closures of international airports, double pricing scams, taxi ripoffs at the airport, and blatant discrimination against the tens of thousands of expats who call Thailand home.

SOUTHEAST Asian leaders have been strongly criticised after launching a widely derided human rights body and barring activists from a key meeting at a regional summit.

Author affiliations: Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel ; Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Ramat Aviv, Israel ; and Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel Abstract Twelve Israeli travelers acquired schistosomiasis in Laos during 20022008, and 7 of them had acute schistosomiasis.

Luang Prabang, the first world heritage of Laos will be the second province in Laos to launch a project to prohibit secondary school students from riding motorbikes to school.

READ the latest blog entry by Bourne End resident Sarah Rees, 22 is embarking on the journey of a lifetime with a three-month train trip from Russia to Thailand.

Submitted photo....Daovy Vongnarath came to Canada in 1979 as a Laotian refugee sponsored by a church in MacGregor.

Lao tourism service providers won six awards at the 2009 Tourism Alliance Awards at the 2009 International Travel Expo held in Vietnam 's Ho Chi Minh City recently.

The travel guides are well-established in the West and have a presence in Indonesia and Thailand.

Go on, have a hit! A bottle of Thai whisky is circulating in the bus, there is a sing-song in progress, and bottles of beer flow over.