Laos News

Spectators were surprised when Phailinda Philavane, 19, a student at Rattana Business Administration College in Vientiane walked off with the Miss Laos title on weekend after already being voted Miss Photogenic and Miss Healthy.

SINGAPORE: Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong will visit Cambodia from 23-24 November at the invitation of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and Human Rights and Refugee Advocate Dr. Jane Hamilton-Merritt as well as the UNHCR, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International and others have appealed to Thailand to cease the forced repatriation of Laos, Hmong refugees.

Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.

Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 12:51 pm Press Release: Center for Public Policy Analysis Washington, D.C., and Bangkok, Thailand, November 17, 2009 Center for Public Policy Analysis Thailand's Army Commander, General Anupong Paochinda, as well as Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, have mobilized over 320 heavily-armed troops to the Lao Hmong refugee ...

No don't get me wrong, I'm all for roughing it and sacrificing comfort for experience and all that, but there is something intensely fabulous about a place with flushing toilets! Wahey! No more scooping buckets of murky water for two days at least! And while I'm at it , I'm also very excited to find a coffee shop with squashy chairs and lattes with ...

By D.Arul Rajoo VIENTIANE, Nov 16 -- When the capital of Laos, Vientiane, hosted the 10th Asean Summit in 2004, it was the first ever major international event for the land-locked country and one of the poorest in the world.

Nay Pyi Taw a ' Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar General Thein Sein, on 6 November evening, attended the 1St Mekong-Japan Summit at the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo of Japan.

More special units of the Vietnam Peoples Army have been deployed in Laos from Hanoi as Lao students, activists and political and religious dissidents seek to rally prior to the SEA Games and the visit of President Barack Obama to Singapore and Southeast Asia.

A close look at this river bank village on the Ho Chi Minh trail bordering Vietnam reveals details which belie its tranquility.

Vietnam has boosted its military relationship with the LPDR regime in Laos as more troops from Hanoi continue to deploy to Laos prior to the SEA Games 2009-11-12 05:47:14 - "The 2 November 2009 protest aimed to claim for - a real democracy, human rights respect, the cancellation of the Laos-Vietnam Cooperation Treaty of 1977, the release of all ...

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.

Asean information ministers have vowed to work together to introduce digital broadcasting to replace analogue switch-off over the period 2015 to 2020.

President Obama has told Lao leaders in the communist regime that they are no longer Marxist Leninists, prior to the recent round of arrests of 1123 Laotian pro-democracy and student demonstrators in Laos in the last week.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks alongside Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh, Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, during a joint news conference following the Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting at Hatoyama's official ...

Asean has a large pool of information mechanism and resources to promote itself, such as the Asean Television News Exchange, Asean Digital Broadcasting Cooperation and Asean in Action .

Havana, Nov 4 Laotian ambassador to Cuba Khampho Khaykhamphithoune expressed his desire that bilateral relations increase even more and diversify in all spheres, with the same principles and ideas.

From Zulkefli Salleh VIENTIANE, Nov 3 -- Asean officials began a two-day meeting here Tuesday to discuss existing media-related programmes and activities and propose new ones to increase awareness on Asean, in efforts to build the Asean Community by 2015.

DKLS Industries Bhd said it will partner Nam Pa Pa Savannakhet Supply to upgrade the water supply facility of the Nake Water Treatment Plant and its network system for Kaysone Phomvihane District in Savannakhet Province, Laos.

A few days ago I needed to travel to Vientiane in Laos in order to sort out my immigration visa for Thailand.