Nong Khai, Thailand News

A 43-year-old man dipped his brush into the paint before brushing it on a giant canvas, colouring the unfinished portrait of a monk standing in his Seksilpha Studio of Art in Thabo district of Nong Khai province.

In last week's Sakon Nakhon by-election, the coalition Bhum Jai Thai Party lost to the opposition Pheu Thai Party.

Dear readers, can you divulge the names of your favourite foreign authors? How about titles of books you've fallen in love with recently? Samples of Lao works of fiction, a few of which have been translated into Thai over the past decades.

Friday, 19 June 2009, 1:24 pm Press Release: Center for Public Policy Analysis Center for Public Policy Analysis A major Congressional letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the Lao Hmong refugee crisis in Thailand and Laos is slated to be sent today by some 25 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kamphan Hongsaen, a Nong Khai native, finished her training for rubber-tapping last week and hopes the new job will bring her greater prosperity.

The only aid agency working at a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand said Wednesday it would stop work there because of policies aimed at pressuring members of the ethnic minority to return to Laos, where they could be persecuted.

Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya recently announced that Thailand would facilitate resettlement in third countries for 158 Hmong refugees detained in Nong Khai province.

Laos insisted yesterday that 158 Hmong refugees being detained in Nong Khai must be repatriated back to Laos as normal migrants.

Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya yesterday clarified Thailand's position in regard to Hmong refugees, saying the fate of 158 people from Laos detained at Nong Khai was up to Vientiane.

Saturday, 2 May 2009, 2:46 pm Press Release: Joe Davy Yesterday, the Lao state-controlled newspaper Vientiane Times quoted the Lao Foreign Ministry spokesman criticizing Thailand for its recent offer to allow 158 UNHCR-recognized Hmong refugees resettlement in third countries.

The highly inventive SE Asia Movie Theater project has just come up with a real winner, the old movie theater in Chiang Khan on the banks of the Mekong which has gone out of business but had the sense to remember the past with a small museum.

On a hilltop, the hosts and crew of the TV series 'Mekong the Untamed' ponder the meaning and the message in the river below Part 4 Vithoon Pungprasert Our team continued apace in northern Yunnan, near the Tibetan border, coming to a mountain summit 3,000 metres above sea level.

April 26, 2009 Resettlement of 158 Hmong Lao Refugees in Thailand Leaves Thousands More in Despair Special to Huntingtonnews.net At a press conference last week, Thai Foreign Minsiter Kasit Piromya Kasi made the announcement that 158 Hmong Lao refugees will finally be allowed to resettle in other countries.

When the BTS is already crowded during weekday commuter hours, what will it be like when an estimated hundreds of thousands of passengers start using the BTS after the Thonburi link starts operating? Add to that the dramatic increase when schools open in May.

Thailand will facilitate resettlement in third countries for 158 Hmong refugees being detained in Nong Khai, Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said yesterday.

Until last month, Laos was a country where you couldn't ride a train. Heading there from Thailand, you could go only as far as the border town of Nong Khai before being forced to switch to bus or taxi.

The red shirts are holding rallies in 21 provinces to support the main demonstration in Bangkok, the Interior Ministry said in a report on Thursday.

Songkran, the ancient tradition of splashing others with water, is without doubt a unique fun-filled festival which marks the beginning of the Thai New Year.

At a table under a tree, in the yard of a locked detention center, in the city of Nong Khai, in the country of Thailand, across the wide Mekong river from the country of Laos, in the interior of Southeast Asia, sat two men.

Army chief Anupong Paojinda on Tuesday categorically denied deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's accusation that he was involved in a plot to assassinate him.