Lao Voices

When I hear a Farang, as most Lao would call a white person, say such as this, I couldn’t help but to smile, I think in a sense, there might be a time in our life that we visited a place and it’d feel like home. This is what Peter Livermore said about Laos, [...]

A while back Padek posted about the lack of quality Lao news and how the news coming out of Laos tend to be too positive while the news outside of Laos, coming from certain interest groups regarding Laos are too negative. But what about the average people in Laos, how do they get their news? [...]

I came across an article from CFO magazine about China Olympics, very interesting that the Olympics event will begin on 8/8/08, which the Chinese regard eight as a lucky number, and a triple eight compounds its value. All this time, I thought that 7 and 9 are lucky numbers. This is very interesting article, one [...]

When I first introduced Big Brother Mouse (BBM), I didn’t expect many questions over the matter and only wrote on my post here and also my blog that “I don’t know a lot about them”, but ignorance on my part is no excuse and I feel that I owe to my readers an apology for [...]

Apparently, we agreed that cow farts are not a major contributing factor to global warming, but the issue of climate change is looming in the air. According to VOA News, more than 150 nations and 80 heads of state and governments attended an unprecedented summit on climate change at the United Nations headquarters in [...]

I was very happy to read about the launching of Sao Lao Magazine by the Lao Women’s Union in Friday’s Vientiane Times Newspaper. I can’t wait to get my hands on the first issue of the magazine and will call my aunt in Vientiane tomorrow to buy a copy and send it to me. I [...]

Video description: The CIA decided that Laos was the key to winning the war in Vietnam. Laos has an enormous strategic position in the fight for Vietnam. The Vietnamese Communists from the north have been using a secret trail which runs through Laos to direct troops, weapons, and supplies, to fight the US troops in [...]

According to The Nation, Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper, Laos’s State Inspection Authority looks to become a new government mechanism to make the state administration more transparent after having been legally empowered, according to a senior state inspector. This Law on State Inspection will enable them to work more effectively. The National Assembly passed the [...]

News coverage about Ban Pha Lak, a Hmong resettlement village in Laos.

Even thought I did some research and wrote about Boun Horkhaopadapdin on the post, Boun Haw Khao Padap Din (Lao) and Nora Rong Khru Chao Ban Ritual (Thais), and I still find myself amaze that it’s something that is carrying throughout the country in Laos.
I had a reader by the name of John, that once [...]

I saw “The Power of Nightmares” documentary by BBC a couple of weeks ago. This is a must watch. It made me wonder just how far we are capable of doing when we live in fear. From part I, introduction:
In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened [...]