Lao Voices

Many rice fields that covered the mountainous North of Laos are gone. They are steadily being replaced by rubber trees. The Chinese are coming to Laos and they need their rubber products for their galloping economy. It appears nothing can stop the ever growing Chinese machine that seems perpetually hungry for manufacturing products supplies.
The Chines [...]

I thought I was the only one that’s unsure of who to vote for, as the primary election rolls around in our area. Surprisingly, even one of my republican co-workers is unsure of her candidate, surprisingly only one left. She is not impressed, and the term that she used was that “he is not strong [...]

The U.S. Air Force wanted to use “nuclear weapons” against Vietnam in 1959 and 1968, and Laos in 1961, to obliterate communist guerrillas, according to newly declassified secret U.S. Air Force documents.
The 400-page document, titled, “The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: The War in Northern Laos 1954-1973,” was written [...]

The Japanese government has allocated US$2.3 million to help Laos fight poverty in Huaphan province and create more opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises
The signing ceremony for the two separate funds, organised through the Asian Development Bank, was held yesterday at the Ministry of Finance in Vientiane between senior government officials including Deputy Minister of [...]

Since Laos is littered with Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), it is not a surprise to find the country listed as one of the subscribers to the Declaration of the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions.
The Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions is one of the most significant disarmament meetings that the New Zealand government has ever hosted. [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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?