Lao Voices

I like this song, it has good beat and a lot of fun to watch, enjoy.

Bane Phonsikhay is located in Pakse, with roughly 400 households. Like most Lao villages, the wat or temple is the heart of the village. For a relative small temple, Wat Phonsikhay is a host to 40 novice Buddhist monks and 6 senior monks. The temple has a Buddhist Seminary school and has traditionally accepted about [...]

8 minutes clip of a drive around Vientiane.

These photos were taken on August 31, 2007 between 5:47 PM and 5:56 PM. The water level is very high and many gardens along the riverbank are flooded in Pakse.

You can see Narng Norn or Sleeping Lady mountain in the distance.

I think when we hear or read the news about the education system in Laos, it’s mostly numbers given to us, of what the percentage of students are still in school, the number of dropped out, and the percentage of staying in school seems to decrease as the age of the students increase. For most [...]

Video description: The CIA decided that Laos was the key to winning the war in Vietnam. Laos has an enormous strategic position in the fight for Vietnam. The Vietnamese Communists from the north have been using a secret trail which runs through Laos to direct troops, weapons, and supplies, to fight the US troops in [...]

According to The Nation, Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper, Laos’s State Inspection Authority looks to become a new government mechanism to make the state administration more transparent after having been legally empowered, according to a senior state inspector. This Law on State Inspection will enable them to work more effectively. The National Assembly passed the [...]

News coverage about Ban Pha Lak, a Hmong resettlement village in Laos.

Happiness Elephant from the Elephant Parade Rotterdam. Please visit the Gallery for more photos.

Building the Nam Theun 2 dam could become a very beneficial project for Laos. Not in the way you would expect. The highest expectations of Nam Theun 2 are direct financial gains for the Lao government. That remains to be seen. The investment in the Nam Theun might not be a very profitable one.
Hans Luther [...]