Laos News Archives

“Some of our neighbors in the SEAG are going to help us in our bid to have basketball in 2009”

By NICK GIONGCO The Philippine Olympic Committee is pushing for the inclusion of basketball and a few other sports in the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Laos. via Manila Bulletin

“I was on the ground. I looked at the others. One had been ripped in half. One was missing his legs. The third man's eyes were gone and his insides had come out.”

A man shapes a ball of C4 plastic explosive like a child with playdough, carefully inserts it into a hole at the side of the road, attaches an electric detonator, and walks away. via The Age

Lao People's Revolutionary Party General Secretary and President of Laos, Choummaly Sayasone, praised the results of the working session between high-level delegations of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and the ... via VietNamNet

London/India/Nepal/Thailan d/SIngapore/Indonesia/Mala ysia/Australia/New Zealand/Fiji/LA/London baby.Kate and Darren's adventure of a lifetime. via TravelPod.com Recent Updates

A Vietnamese high-level delegation, headed by Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan arrived in Vientiane on April 21, beginning an official visit to Laos at the invitation of Lao counterpart Bounnhang Volachith. via VietNamNet

Luang Prabang is concidered a world heritage site, because it still retains the French colonial buildings that make the town quite romantic; and it also has many ancient Buddhist Wats . via TravelPod.com Recent Updates

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia : Russian authorities say a high-ranking judge with the Supreme Court in the restive southern region of Ingushetia has been shot dead. via International Herald Tribune

Note: I was getting really bummed out for several days in trying to successfully bring this sad story about the Lao Hmong to an end and press on with new material. via Jewels in the Jungle

Trackback Laos is about to get its first railway, a humble 2.17-mile line crossing from the Thailand-Laos Friendship Bridge toward the capital Vientiane. via WorldTravelWatch.com

LONDON : Lawyers say a suspect in the disappearance of a British girl is suing 11 media outlets for libel. via International Herald Tribune

An all-women team of deminers is helping to clear explosives in one of the the world's most heavily-bombed countries. via Reuters

“I expect to protect or save the lives of staff who deal with UXO (unexploded ordnance) and to help the community so they can farm more productively”

Eight months pregnant, Peng Souvanthon stands in the windy, sun-drenched hills of Laos instructing other women as they remove unexploded bombs from a war that ended more than three decades ago. via ABS-CBN News

“The national government has a hard time understanding what is going on. Even at the district level, concessions are given that the province does not know about”

After decades of isolation, Communist-led Laos is enjoying an economic boom fuelled in part by surging demand for its abundant commodity -- land. via Globeinvestor.com

Just north of the Cambodian border, the Mekong River splinters into dozens of channels, turning Southeast Asia's longest waterway into a tangled mess of rapids, dead ends and near-forgotten islands. via Asia News Network

“Many people are angry with the government”

By Darren Schuettler Reuters Sunday, April 6, 2008; 10:52 PM VIENTIANE - In the eyes of Laos' Communist rulers, trading Vientiane's biggest wetland for a new sports stadium seemed like a good bargain. via The Washington Post

“This is not unusual. Almost every country in the world has a Chinatown, so why shouldn't Laos have one?”

A high-rise Chinatown that is to go up by Laos' laid-back capital has ignited fears that this nation's giant northern neighbour is moving to engulf this nation. via Canoe

“You never used to see apples in the traditional markets”

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, LUANG NAMTHA, LAOS Tuesday, Apr 01, 2008, Page 4 Seen from the road, the Mekong River winds its way through the foothills of the Himalayas north of Cizhong village in China's Yunnan ... via Taipei Times

“This is unity among ethnic groups.”

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has pledged that his government will extend further support to poor areas inhabited by ethnic minority people. via People's Daily Online

Leaders of the six GMS countries will be meeting in Vientiane, Laos on March 30-31 to discuss ways to deepen economic cooperation for their countries' shared prosperity. via Xinhuanet

General news >> Wednesday April 02, 2008 PM'S ILLNESS Samak laid low by the flu, or was it 'pla ra'? YUWADEE TUNYASIRI Was it pla ra or was it influenza that laid Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej low with ... via Bangkok Post

“Destruction of habitat has huge impact on wild elephant groups. Domesticated elephants are overworked in logging and thus do not reproduce.”

Laos, once known as the Land of a Million Elephants, faces warnings from conservationists that it could lose its herds within 50 years if it does not move quickly to protect them with tourism eyed as a possible ... via Reuters

“Before construction commenced on the new route, the highway was closed four months each year during the rainy season, limiting communities' access to basic social services, and impeding trade and employment opportunities in the region”

The landlocked country of Laos inaugurated a new highway that will allow a north-south land route connecting Southeast Asia and China to operate year-round, the Asian Development Bank said. via CNN