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Sunday | PR-inside.com

Concerns Haunt SEA Games in Laos: Police Arrest 1123 Organizers Seeking Change in LPDR

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Xinhuanet

Japanese PM, leaders of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam adopted Tokyo Declaration Friday.

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 ...

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hun Sen, Bouasone Bouphavanh, Thein Sein

BruDirect

Media Key To Promoting Asean, Says Minister

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 .

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Prensa Latina

Laos for Increasing Cuba Ties

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.

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Related Topix: Cuba, Central America, World News, Southeast Asia,

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Malaysian National News Agency

Asean Officials Meet For Conference Of AMRI

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Business Times

DKLS to upgrade Laos water supply facility

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia

Associated Content

Travel to Vientiane Laos; My First Visit in Two Years

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

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Related Topix: Travel, Southeast Asia, Laos Travel, World News, Thailand,

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Associated Content

Family Hotel Vientiane Laos

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.

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Related Topix: Travel, Southeast Asia, Laos Travel, World News

Fri Oct 30, 2009

www.asianewsnet.net | Sabaidee

VIENTIANE: Nam Mang 1 hydropower project in full flow

Lao and Chinese entrepreneurs who will jointly invest in Nam Mang 1 hydropower project expect to sign a project development agreement with the Lao government by the end of this year, according to project coordinator.

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Related Topix: PDAs, Southeast Asia, World News

media-newswire.com | Sabaidee

SEA Games Problems: Psych Ops, Machine Guns Directed Against Laos,...

Navigation "Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Defense Minister Prawit Wonguwon and Army Chief of Staff, General Anupong Paochinda, have launched a massive campaign of armed abuse, intimidation and threats to seek to seek to force some 4,000 Lao Hmong political refugees in Thailand back to the communist regime in Laos that they fled," ...

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Thailand, Green Bay, WI,

Bangkok Post

House of Gods

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.

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Related Topix: World News, Thailand, Travel, Southeast Asia, Laos Travel, Religion, Hindu, Buddhism,

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Earth Times

South Korea funds Laos' first children's hospital

South Korea has granted 3.5 million dollars to build Laos' first children's hospital, media reports said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Asia News Network

VIENTIANE: Laos approves US$4.3b in investments

The inflow of investment into Laos is expected to see a big jump this year despite the global recession, according to data released by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia

Mon Oct 26, 2009

IRIN

In Brief: Flood-hit farmers face hunger in Laos

VIENTIANE, 26 October 2009 - Farmers in southern Laos who lost their harvests to floods caused by Typhoon Ketsana face a year of hunger if they do not receive rice seeds soon to replant their crops, the Food and Agriculture Organization warns.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Agriculture, Science

Sun Oct 25, 2009

People's Daily Online

Chinese Vice Premier Li visits exhibition hall of 6th CAEXPO in Nanning

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang rings the bell together with Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh to declare the open of Laos Pavilion ahead of the 6th China-ASEAN Exposition in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Aotonomous Region, on Oct.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Bouasone Bouphavanh, Southeast Asia

Sat Oct 24, 2009

The Boston Globe

Myanmar, North Korea feature at Asian summit

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, fifth from left, link hands with ASEAN leaders during group shot before the ASEAN-Japan meeting at the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, in Cha-am of Hua Hin district, south of Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Thailand, Bouasone Bouphavanh, Thein Sein, Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong

Fri Oct 23, 2009

www.asianewsnet.net | Sabaidee

VIENTIANE: Brakes applied to Lao student motorbike riding

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.

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Related Topix: Travel, Luang Prabang, Laos Travel, Laos Travel, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Southeast Asia, World News

Earth Times

Laos reports 3,395 cases of HIV/AIDS, 960 deaths

Laos has 3,395 known cases of people infected with HIV, of whom 2,180 have developed AIDS, state media reported on Friday.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Drugs

Thu Oct 22, 2009

IRIN News

LAOS: UN launches $10m flood aid appeal

The UN launched a flash appeal on 22 October for more than US$10 million after Typhoon Ketsana brought devastating floods to Laos, hitting some of the nationa s poorest and most vulnerable people.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Agriculture, Science

People's Daily Online

China, Laos pledge deeper relationship

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang meets with Laos' Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh at the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Oct.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Southeast Asia, Bouasone Bouphavanh,

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