Lao Voices

English financial magazine “The Economist” published a ranking list called The Economist Intelligence Unit’s democracy index. of the most and least democratic regimes in the world. I bet you can guess where Laos is ranking.
The ranking is based on scores in five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation [...]

When I am on a shopping spree, I never miss CowPoo

Now and then we receive some information with substance from Laos and its educational system through different media. However, I find it very difficult to get reliable quality news about Laos.
In my view, quality news means news with a “sufficient” amount of objectivity, something that is not written with a clear or hidden agenda [...]

In response to Salat’s Ginger’s very funny post “what’s your head” I have a few comparable linguistic confusions also knows as “Engrish” or “Chinglish”.
I did not know people fish like that…

You are welcome!

After the recent Bird Flu outbreaks in Laos and the fear of human-to-human transfer of the H5N1 virus, and watching movies such as Grindhouse and 28 week later I started wondering what would happen to a society when a fullblown lethal virus would spread.
Oddly enough, the closest proxy that delivers insight to an outbreak comes [...]

In the light of education most people focus on schools and educational programs. After all, schooling programs provide the power of knowledge to many. Learning to read and write are essential skills for the citizens of a country and will build the country as a whole. Without sufficient education, little or no economic growth is [...]

The below article is an excerpt from the article “Laos: war against an impovered state” by Willy Van Damme translated from Dutch to English by yours truly.
In short: general Vang Pao is a drug lord and CIA agent who held many Hmong hostage in his firm grip of violence and opium trades. Vang Pao’s key [...]

Americans are classified as “hard workers”, but not necessarily the most productive, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics. It has compared America’s output per worker, and output per hour, with that of other rich countries.
Using output per hour, however, shows a different picture. Employees in Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands and France all churn out [...]

Remember this from a while ago?

I was thinking to myself, what are the signs of a webmaster that clearly has become a has been? Let me sum it up for you:
When everyone already incorporated Web 2.0 you are still trying to get past your first steps in html for dummies;
Your site can’t handle Firefox browsers (because you haven’t caught up [...]

Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist, married and father of 6 children, won the top prize in the final of the world series of poker, on Wednesday 18th of July. The significant sum of $8.25 million will flow into his pocket after he knocked out seven of the eight other players at the final table.
Jerry is [...]

Came across a presentation of Oudet Souvannavong, VP of the Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who held a presentation at the regional Seminar on Informatisation July last year. The presentation was posted on the site of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for asia and the Pacific and contained a few notable [...]