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The rapids on the Nam Khan River were a little more challenging than I thought

Kayaking Adventure

Kayaking down the Nam Khan River near Luang Prabang in Laos...

Vietnam / Myanmar / Cambodia MaryLou Driedger

What do you get when you mix buckets of water, talcum powder, jasmine petals and barbecued water ...

Laos Donald Gilliland

Vientiane International Airport

Chilling out in Vientiane

Laos is a country that has had a history of turmoil which today is facing the challenges of promo...

Laos Malcolm Teasdale

Communist leader Kaysone's whiskey bottle and glass

A Communist Leader Hat Trick

An athlete who scores three goals in a game is said to have achieved a hat trick. In Laos I visit...

Laos MaryLou Driedger

That Luang

Getting Down in Laos, The Invented State

The Lao National Museum (LNM), located in the capital Vientiane, contains only a few exhibits ded...

Laos Kenneth Champeon

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Thai town in uproar over charges that fireball phenomenon is faked

Residents of a remote town in northern Thailand are up in arms over a TV investigation which foun...

Laos / Thailand AFP

That Dam, the Black Stupa in downtown Vientiane, conceals a seven-headed dragon which re-emerges to protect the city in times of danger.

Vientiane : When Will The Levee Break?

How do we who weren't born yesterday, summon up Vientiane Before The Revolution, recalling that l...

Laos Philip Game

A Pleasant 'Hell' in Laos

Just outside the city limits of Vientiane, our little old bus bounced down the dusty two-lane roa...

Laos / Thailand Donald Gilliland

Sex, Lies and B-52s

* * * * * "There are no fighter pilots down in hell The place is full of queers, navigators, bomb...

Laos Kenneth Champeon

Thank You for Flying Spook Air

Review of Air America, a book not by any means to be confused with the film by the same name. By...

Laos Kenneth Champeon

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Portrait of an Anti-hero

Review of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato , Broadway Books, 1999.

Vietnam / Myanmar / Laos Kenneth Champeon

The Pak Ou boat on the MekongPhotos by Julie Fay

The Kindness of Strangers. September 11th in Laos.

Day One In the spider-infested, two-dollar-a-night Arimid Guesthouse, in the grimy Lao border tow...

Laos Kim Fay

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Stories from the Wounded Shangri-La

When John F. Kennedy announced American military involvement in Laos he mispronounced the name as...

Laos Kenneth Champeon

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Poverty-stricken Laos looks to dam for salvation

NAKAI PLATEAU, Laos, Dec 1, 2002 - As barefooted, half-naked children and foraging pigs run circl...

Laos AFP/Ben Rowse

A young woman with a baby in the fields as vegetation is burnt off in the background, at a Hmong village resettled in the Xiengkhone district of the northern Laos province of Xayaburi.

Moving Lao Villages

* * * VIENTIANE, April 25, 2004 - Faced with a challenging topography and a dispersed population,...

Laos AFP/Didier Lauras

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The Last of the Free

During the Vietnam War, the Hmong of Laos had the dubious distinction of being at the very bottom...

Laos Kenneth Champeon

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Laos' Nam Theun II dam

HANOI, April 2, 2005 - After unceasing financial and political fights, the immense Nam Theun II d...

Laos AFP/Didier Lauras

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An Inheritance Delayed

The American leadership during the Vietnam War was full of pithy expressions to describe the subo...

Laos Kenneth Champeon

Vientiane Promenade

The Mother of all Rivers is what Lao people call this wide and torpid stream that meanders for 1,...

Laos Tom Cockrem

The Idyll of Vang Vien, Laos.

Whither Laos, Idyll of Asia

Arriving for the first time in Thailand, I was both elated and depressed by its modernization. Ha...

Laos Kenneth Champeon

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