Lao Voices

In the Arab World, the beauty pageant is one of the most conservative without a bikini in sight; this is Miss Arab World Beauty Pageant 2007. Women from across the Arab world came together to compete in Cairo, Miss Bahrain, Wafa Yaqoop (below) is crowned the winner.

Of course, showing sexy legs is a no [...]

Nang Sangkhane AFLF 2008, April 05, 2008.

I’m very pleased when I saw the article from The New York Times that Laos is one of the 53 places to go in 2008. According to the article, Vietnam and Cambodia are so 2007. Now, Laos is shaping up to be Indochina’s next hot spot. Ancient sites like the Wat Phou temple complex [...]

Additional News coverage about the battle to preserve Lao culture by preserving Lao traditional clothing for Lao girls and women. The article has a good point about the cost of Lao sinh that are made of Lao silk. It can be quite expensive to owe one for the average Lao citizens. Real Lao silk sinh [...]

While there is no dress code for the general public, “public figures, such as singers, presenters and performers” are encouraged to dress appropriately according to the latest news from the Vientiane Times Newspaper. This news doesn’t come as a surprise to me. During my visit to Laos last year I noticed how teenagers tend to [...]

A short clip of beautiful Lao girls, getting ready for a fashion show at Don Chan Palace in Vientiane Laos in December of 2006, for the Lao Handicraft Festival 5th Anniversary.

I’m not one to like to dye my hair, I think I must have done it once when I was in High School because I wanted my hair to look silky black just like my best friend, but it turned out to be more like Jet black, witchy looking than anything else, and I’ve not [...]

I wrote a post on yellow color called My Yellow World, which at the time the Thais were wearing bright yellow shirts every Monday to celebrate the King Bhumibol’s 60th anniversary on the throne in 2006 and they continued to wear yellow every Monday for the last 2 years. I never knew the reason [...]

Earlier this year I followed the Thai soap opera, Pleng Ruk Rim Fang Khong and saw something that I bothered me a bit. During commercial break, there were many ads for skin whitening products, in the form of cream or lotion. As a kid in Laos that watched a great deal of Thai TV, I [...]

If anyone has visited Nye Noona’s blog lately, they will definitely notice her beautiful coverage of Elle Fashion Week Thailand. I won’t be surprise to see some of the designers cross over to the US soon. And one of the most popular fashion designer of Thai descent (here in the US) is Thakoon [...]