Lao Voices

Many young Laotians dream of becoming a model or movie star, Is it something worth pursuing? I’m not a big fan of this type of career choice, mainly because most that take this path have no interest in schooling and to me education should be the number one priority for all young Laotians. [...]

Thai Meditation by Jules Emile Frederic Massenet is number 67 in the top 100 classical songs I posted about yesterday in Nelly Furtado Day post.

Sara Chang gave a perfect performance of this piece.

Apparently, Laos does not care much about whales. Why would they, you ask, Laos is a landlocked country where the chances you see a whale are about as high as seeing a water buffalo on the Arctic. Still, Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh agreed to join the world’s whaling body or International Whaling Commission (IWC). [...]

I remember when I did not study hard enough for a test, I sometimes made up an far fetched answer just for my own amusement. These students are quite good at that and someone collected these test comics. I loved it. Use the % handle to enlarge!

The weather is not very nice this weekend. It’s cold and I am expecting rain off and on. Since I have three days weekend I decided to spend the free time working on my sites. What a perfect time for the server to crash and some free time for me to work inside and not [...]

An old friend just came back online: JUSKLAO.
JUSKLAO, or a Javascript Unicode Simple Keyboard for Lao (language) is a nifty tool by which you can easily post Lao text in any web based forum, blog or newsgroup.
No need to install any additional software. A simple click will initiate all the code all you need to [...]

I figure I’ll go with the new name Ginger, for the new LP, but before I go on please bear with me for I’ve something to say about the old LP. I never thought that LP could possibly loose all her data, when I saw the new LP, I actually cried, for I knew [...]

Great news reached us this week about the most recent book box fund charity at Lao Voices. We have received confirmation from Laos that all 4 book boxes have been successfully delivered at the schools. It became a day of festivities at each school where teachers and pupils gathered around the gifts of knowledge to [...]

For the third consecutive year, LP has managed to convert your generous contributions into study material (book boxes) for Lao kids. Thanks to our donators who managed to contribute $805 to the fund, we were able to deliver 4 (!) book boxes through the National Library of Laos.
This month, Darly visited the National Library [...]

Lao Planet members and visitors have contributed to the Lao book box fund for a few years now. You might wonder what has happened with your hard-earned-and donated-cash….well here is the update.
Thanks to these heroes, who kindly donated to the book box fund, we were able to buy three additional book boxes for Lao school [...]