(KPL) The Ministry of Information and Culture and the K & C Company Group will organise the second Miss Laos contest 2010 scheduled for 26 November to find the nation’s most beautiful Lao woman, according to a press conference held at Don Chan Palace Hotel in Vientiane on 1 September. Taking part in the press [...]
(KPL) Aluna Thavonsouk, the home grown singing starlet, was already making preparations to become a Lao classical opera diva. Speaking to a KPL News reporter in the Tata Cafe, Vientiane, last week, she said her teacher was a musician of the military band here and he had studied music in China and Vietnam. “At the [...]
(KPL) The MTV Exit (End Exploitation and Trafficking) yesterday revealed in Vientiane its first animated film intersection. Intersection is an adrenaline-fuelled animation that provides a hard-hitting look at human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Asia, and it will screen on Lao Star Channel today, September 2, at 20.00 hours.
Insect tacos are not a dish likely to be seen on many menus, but this inventive take on contemporary fusion cuisine won first prize for Vientiane restaurant Sticky Fingers at Laos’ first ever insect food festival. SAEP LAI LAI! 2010, which took place at the Lao- ITECC in Vientiane on Saturday, drew entries from 15 [...]
If you have heard Black Eyes’ latest single ‘Bor yark dai yin’ (I don’t want to hear anything), you will know the group has continued on with their past successes. The group’s new single, released last week, tells of a man who continues to love a woman despite her repeated indiscretions and failed relationships.
A singing contest organised for youths from various departments of the Ministry of Finance thrilled audience members last Friday. The contest was organised to mark the ministry’s 1st Party Committee meeting and the 2nd Youth Representatives meeting.
Even as he follows his father’s dream to become a country singer, Phiewphone Phommixay still holds a special love for the pop music style. Phiewphone wanted to make one special album in the country style as a gift for his father to take back to his hometown in Xieng Khuang province.
Authorities in Luang Prabang province expect to open new television and radio stations next month after the Vietnamese government provided 57 billion dong (almost 24 billion kip) towards the project. Deputy Director of the Luang Prabang provincial Information and Culture Department, Mr Somlith Boupphapanya said last Friday that construction of the new TV and radio [...]
A documentary about the grand festival of Boun That Luang in Vientiane, Laos.
Steve and Gary get a taste of local village life as they hop on the back of Kai and Thongs motorcycle and cruise to a local Hmong Village.
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