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36 Hours in Luang Prabang, Laos
... faces at the next required stop. (If it's Tuesday, it must be Ho Chi Minh's Tomb.) The crowds are beginning to head to Laos as well - with both Vientiane and Luang Prabang emerging as the next potential hot spots for globe-trotting tourists. But the ...
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Readjusting - Houay Xai, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
... Houay Xai in the morning to connect directly with the slow boat to Luang Prabang, or whether to cross the border into Laos today.. but having singularly failed to get a straight answer out of anyone in Chiang Khong about both the departure time of ...
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China's embrace leaves US in the cold
... in which the United States may not have a substantial role to play. ASEAN members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. CAFTA takes effect for China and six ASEAN countries in ...
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Settha Palace, Vientiane: Where to stay
... Raffles. Built in 1932, and restored in 1999, its architecture, furniture and period features perfectly evoke Laos's French colonial era. It's also thoroughly reliable, air-conditioned and comfortable: as close as Laos gets to what the West would ...
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Lao Green Park, Vientiane: Where to stay
... (01306 747008; www.kuoni.co.uk ) can book all three hotels reviewed, or include them as part of a tailor-made tour of Laos, Vietnam and the rest of Indochina or South-east Asia. Seven nights' b & b at the Settha Palace costs from 1,156 or 1,048 at ...
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Lao Plaza, Vientiane: Where to stay
... features are thoroughly up-to-date. Inside food, staff and the odd decorative flourish aside there's no sign you're in Laos. The second-floor pool is something of an afterthought too small, really, for a hotel with this many rooms. Essentials 00856 ...
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"I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" - Dong Ha, Dong Ha, Vietnam
... another country is in the process of being ticked off.. But yeah, had a couple of odd days, the lackluster effect of Laos has paid it's toll on me, getting motivated and getting on with things is always trouble in Laos, the locals seem to have a way ...
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... areas - Lao PDR's Khammuone Province, Cambodia's Kratie Province, and Vietnam's Tien Giang Province. Central Laos' Khammuone Province is on the Mekong River, and it, along with Savannakhet province are two of the most flood-prone provinces due to ...
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... leading businesses in the real estate sector with many big projects in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Construction of Laos-Vietnam Trade Centre starts Construction of a Laos-Vietnam Trade Centre was officially kicked off in Vientiane on May 8, the ...
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Six drug traffickers nabbed in Dien Bien border raid,
... person were reported to have been caught red-handed by Laotian police while carrying the drugs in Phongsali in Laos. Laotian police co-operated with Dien Bien border guards in investigating the house of one alleged Lao smuggler. They arrested three ...
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Adult Books for High School Students
... VA COTTERILL, Colin . Disco for the Departed 288p. Soho 1-56947-428-1 . LC 2005055462. Adult/High School -Set in Laos in the 1970s, this is the third book in Cotterill's exotic and engrossing series featuring Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 73-year-old ...
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Communication breakdown - Vientiane, Vientiane, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
... awhile (an hour) as they examined our documents but we got through arrived late morning in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. When I say capital I wouldn't have you thinking that this was some big city more like a suburban town, Lonely planet says ...
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ENVIRONMENT-ASIA: Mekong Commission Fends Off Credibility Charges
... MRC's handling of plans for mainstream dams on the Mekong. Of the eight dams planned for the lower Mekong, five are in Laos, two in Thailand and one in Cambodia. "Dams on the mainstream (Mekong) are not new and they are one of the reasons that the ...
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Laos - Peoples Democratic Republic
The Mekong will now lead us up, down and eventually out of Laos when we'll follow it through Cambodia, then it will fork off to Vietnam and away.
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Everyday is special - 11.05.2008
... Howe's original vision of a holiday that celebrates peacemaking by mothers and others. Today is Constitution Day in Laos. On this day in 1947 the Constitution of Laos first provided for a parliamentary democracy with a king as nominal chief ...
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another faceless captial.. - Vientiane, Vientiane, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
... caving network, or drop further south towards 4 thousand islands. Still, I managed to drink my fair share of Laos coffee, nothing better than an Iced Coffee! More to follow.. Next step Southern or North-Eastern Laos.. Photos for the ' Another ...
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OPP seek public assistance in locating suspect wanted in murder investigation
... to death. SYCHANTHA and his accomplice then disposed of the victim's body in a bush lot. SYCHANTHA fled from Canada to Laos in southeast Asia after this offence, however it is now believed that he may have returned to Canada, residing possibly in ...
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ASEAN countries address HIV/AIDS issues
Officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met in Laos, discussing ways to combat the rising incidence of HIV/AIDS in the region, including facilitating greater involvement and empowerment of ...
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Global Community to Team Up for Cluster Bomb Ban
Viengkeo Kavongsone, his wife and their children were clearing the ditch that drains rainwater from their little wooden house in the province of Xieng Khouang in northern Laos.
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Laos presents assistance to Myanmar's cyclone victims
The Lao government has presented funds totaling 20,000 U.S. dollars and 2.5 tons of food aid to the Myanmar government to help over 20,000 victims of Cyclone Nargis, which hit the country last weekend, Lao ...
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