Vientiane

Kayaking Adventure

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:55:38 +0000

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

Laos New Year

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:59:23 +0000

What do you get when you mix buckets of water, talcum powder, jasmine petals and barbecued water buffalo? A festive Buddhist New Year's Celebration in Laos, that's what. As if there weren't enough New...

Chilling out in Vientiane

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:14:33 +0000

Laos is a country that has had a history of turmoil which today is facing the challenges of promoting tourism while preserving its culture under a socialist government.

A Communist Leader Hat Trick

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:51:22 +0000

An athlete who scores three goals in a game is said to have achieved a hat trick. In Laos I visited my third Communist Leader memorial. My hat trick accomplishment was a rather surreal experience.

Getting Down in Laos, The Invented State

Anonymous — Sat, 05 May 2001 00:44:35 +0000

The Lao National Museum (LNM), located in the capital Vientiane, contains only a few exhibits dedicated to Laos before French colonization. These exhibits are generally dusty, shoddily made and...

Thai town in uproar over charges that fireball phenomenon is faked

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Nov 2002 05:20:42 +0000

Residents of a remote town in northern Thailand are up in arms over a TV investigation which found that a famous fireball phenomenon in the Mekong River which draws hordes of tourists annually could...

Vientiane : When Will The Levee Break?

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Mar 2001 18:15:33 +0000

How do we who weren't born yesterday, summon up Vientiane Before The Revolution, recalling that lotus-eaters' idyll on the Mekong through two decades of rose-colored haze? Some remember dining at the...

A Pleasant 'Hell' in Laos

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:53:07 +0000

Just outside the city limits of Vientiane, our little old bus bounced down the dusty two-lane road towards the Friendship Bridge that connects Laos and Thailand. Just beyond that bridge, on the Laos...

Sex, Lies and B-52s

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:33:12 +0000

* * * * * "There are no fighter pilots down in hell The place is full of queers, navigators, bombardiers, But there are no fighter pilots down in hell." --from The Ravens As long as the dull jingoist...

Thank You for Flying Spook Air

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:05:10 +0000

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

Portrait of an Anti-hero

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:17:53 +0000

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

The Kindness of Strangers. September 11th in Laos.

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:20:35 +0000

Day One In the spider-infested, two-dollar-a-night Arimid Guesthouse, in the grimy Lao border town of Huay Xai, I wake too early for comfort. Still half asleep, along with my sister, Julie, and our...

Stories from the Wounded Shangri-La

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:57:04 +0000

When John F. Kennedy announced American military involvement in Laos he mispronounced the name as "Lay-os". He believed that the public could not bear the thought of the mighty US military taking on a...

Moving Lao Villages

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:59:21 +0000

* * * VIENTIANE, April 25, 2004 - Faced with a challenging topography and a dispersed population, Laos has gambled on a controversial poverty reduction programme of relocating villagers from remote,...

Poverty-stricken Laos looks to dam for salvation

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Dec 2002 20:02:54 +0000

NAKAI PLATEAU, Laos, Dec 1, 2002 - As barefooted, half-naked children and foraging pigs run circles around him, Siphouan Syphachanh, the headman of Sop Phene village in central Laos, yearns for an end...