Lao Voices

There is something seriously wrong with Laohub, the Lao teen chat platform that has *cough cough* more than 5000 users if you believe the script that its former webmaster made for creating ghost accounts. By coincidence, I came across this message on a Google search.

Now you must know that Google is very careful putting such [...]

Yesterday, Brunei, Laos and Malaysia have joined Singapore in ratifying the Association of Southeast Asian Nations charter that provides for the creation of a human rights body.
This ASEAN Charter sprouts from three important earlier declarations in the Vientiane [...]

Whoever said that the uneducated don’t hold much power were wrong. They really determined the last two US elections. Have a look at the chart below depicting the last election in red (primarily Cons) and blue (primarily Dems) states.

Now compare that chart with the following illustration displaying the percentage of the population that underwent less [...]

This article was originally posted by Dumb Little Man (tips for life). A typical prescription with rules of thumb to lead a succesful life. Although it is a nice list, I also see a few weaknesses that will not help much with “success” in life.

And what is the definition of success, is it money, health, [...]

Republicans are known for their strict financial and fiscal discipline. At least, that has been the image they have carefully built themselves. Contrary, Republicans have brought the US to a soon-to-be recession through overspending and by borrowing an immense amount of money from China and the Middle East. The US has become the biggest debt [...]

I imagine Paul, Billie, Douandara, Vong, Meiling and Vayakone sitting at a table on a sunny Sunday afternoon in San Diego, CA. “Hey guys”, Paul shouted in ecstasy, “let’s make a new Lao magazine and let’s become the nouveau riche of the Lao media world”. “Yes, but I want to be Director”, Billie cried.
That [...]

A political study led by Jon P Miller, political scientist at Michigan State University, shows that people in the US are much less likely to accept the theory of evolution than other Western states.
You’ll find them on the chart just above Turkey and below Cyprus. Theory replaced by Theocracy?

As a follow up to the long and prosperous post, it was time to elaborate on the costs of health care in the US. For this, I use a report of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that takes hospital charges as a proxy for the rate of increases and to show where the [...]

This article almost escaped my attention. Apparently, the Swedish government has decided to downgrade its office in Laos from an embassy to a “section office” in 2008 and by 15 August 2008 at the latest.
This implies that all consular, passport and visa services that normally run through this office will be stopped. The reason for [...]

Wishing everyone a healthy and prosperous new year!
Talking about health and prosperity: below a graph where the average life expectancy is displayed per country versus the costs of health care in that particular country. Conclusion: If you want to live long at reasonable costs you might want to go to Japan.

Shorter lived and immensely [...]

Let me just do a little experiment here Here is a tutorial how to use Kwout, an extremely helpful tool for bloggers that want to quote a website in a fast and effective way.

And this is the output of my “Kwout”; simply copy and paste:

And there we have the quote from a pompous Christmas [...]