News: Lao People

In June 2006, Koua Fong Lee was driving his pregnant wife and other family members home from church when he says his 1996 Toyota Camry accelerated on its own and the brakes stopped working. Lee struck another vehicle, killing three people in that car. A Minnesota jury convicted Lee of vehicular homicide and the native of Laos was sente

the closest i found to the Desteni message. Legend has it that Lao Tzu lived approximately 2500 years ago. He was the keeper of the archives of the imperial court of China at that time. Saddened and disillusioned at life and humanity, and that people were unable to follow the path of goodness, he left his position in the court. ..

spend your time to see the people here making the beautiful products by their skillful hands. Then the next stop will be the house where you’ll have our dinner

Lao BBQ or Sin Dat is a very special table top BBQ meal. It brings people together and the experience is memorable. Part of the good experience is of course the flavour and the flavour is very much enhanced by a unique fermented soy-bean sauce.The base is an available commercial product and the end product is easily blended and stored by a host.

6 January 2010 - Chanthone Soutvatdi is 45 years old and married with three children. She is also the head of the village savings and credit group of Nasala village, in the Houaphan province of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Afloat in the Golden Triangle. Amazing photos of the people of Laos and Northern Thailand.

Thai army has begun an operation to close down a camp housing 4,000 ethnic Hmong refugees. The ethnic group from the remote mountains in Laos were recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to fight alongside US forces. Journalists and independent observers have been barred from the camp.

Concern grows among diplomats and aid groups about thousands of Lao Hmong people whom Thailand plans to deport.

The Thai software developer company, Yozzo Co.,Ltd and mobile operator, Tigo Lao Millicom, has launched the first Mobile Social Community in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic.

14 December 2009 - In its latest survey of Opium Poppy Cultivation in South-East Asia, launched today in Bangkok, UNODC points to an increase in opium cultivation in Myanmar for the third year in a row, as well as a 19 per cent increase in cultivation in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.