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The small Chinese community has made a home for themselves from day one in Pakse. San Jao Sop Se is a place for worship and relaxation for the Sino-Lao and the Lao. With a new wave of investors coming from China, many businesses have signs posted in both Lao and Chinese characters. It will be [...]

Halloween made me think of Lao Boun Haw Khao Padap Din, which was a Lao somber festival in which the living pay respects to the dead. It was marked by a ceremony of exhuming previously buried bodies, cleaning the remains, and then cremation them on the night of the full moon. Darly mentioned that her [...]

During my visit to Laos in January and February of this year, I saw a big construction site across the street from Dao Heuang Market in Pakse. I was not able to figure out what they were building and forgot to ask one of my relatives. I asked my cousin about the construction last month [...]

No breakfast
Lunch:
Salmon and eggs with mozzarella cheese and green tea
Dinner:
Green papaya salad
Brown rice vermicelli
Water spinach

Lao movie about bird flu, produced by Lao Art Media and directed by Anousone Sirisackda.
Part 4

For the villagers at Ban Phonsikhay, the high light of Boun Hor Khao Padapdin is the Lai Fai Din ceremony. A Tai Viengchanh like me have never heard of such thing. My cousin Mo explained to me how Tai Pakse have held Lai Fai ceremony for many generations. For those temples that are located next [...]

Vientiane and Vang Vieng.

Lao movie about bird flu, produced by Lao Art Media.
Part 1

This is a bad year for many farmers in Laos. Due to torrential rain in Laos in late September and early October, thousands of hectares of rice fields in Champassack Province were flooded. My cousin Mo told me how the farmers in Pakse were harvesting the rice, trying to save what they can from the [...]