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I am watching Lao Star Channel at the moment and they are showing a music video of Alexandran Bounxouei with Sabaidee Pee Mai song. I take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year. May 2009 be all that you hope to be and may you have good health and prosperity. Sabaidee Pee [...]

After two weeks of serving the people in the remote area  in Luang Prabang, it’s time to head back to Vientiane to regroup and to start another project in the near future. The poor people of Laos are blessed to have such a generous NGO all the way from Japan to help improved their in [...]

To get to the villages, the team had to travel by boats for many hours with their equipments and supplies and then head back to town for a late night dinner and some rest before heading out at the early morning hours. Now and then though, the team took time out to enjoy the beautiful [...]

After providing free dental clinic in Champassak Province, the same Japanese NGO went to Luang Prabang with a mobile clinic to provide free dental care to selected villages in the remote area in August 2008. The team consisted of two vans, one with the workers and the other full of dental equipments and supplies. It [...]

The new year is closing in and it was time for some changes. Laoplanet.net, the old flagship, was converted to a very convenient “reader” for the latest Lao Buzz and news on Laos and Lao people anywhere. There is no need to go to 60-70 sites and check out if there is any news. Laoplanet.net [...]

A trip in a jumbo or tuk tuk on one of the roads in Vientiane.

Breakfast: Khao Jie Pate.

Lunch: Green papaya salad, roasted pork, fish guts soup, kanom chun and kanom man ton.

The last set of photos from my visit to Dannavieng Elementary School on October 17, 2008. This is the fourth grade class and they were busy with their reading time.

Additional photos of my visit to Dannavieng Elementary School in Champassak Province. This is the third grade class and they are busy with drawing various tools like basket or a fishing net.

The kindergarten class at Dannavieng school is not located in the new school building but in the old one on the left side of the new building. The superintendent and the teachers informed me they were hoping to have a separate building for the kindergarten class after the completion of the new building project. The [...]

On October 17, 2008 I made a visit to Dannavieng Elementary School in Muang Phonethong, Champasak Province. This is one of the four schools that received a Book Box Library in February of 2007. Dannavieng Elementary School also received additional financial assistance with their school building project.
The school kept us posted on the progress of [...]

Miss Apone Lao 2008 wanted only the best for Lao Star Channel. Yes, we should all say “Live long and prosper Lao Star Channel” and “Go global 24/7″.