DJ at Laovoices looks at the proliferation of local language print magazines in Laos.

Welcome to the new blog It’s now five weeks until Chris and I head to Vientiane, Laos for a year of challenges and excitement as part of AusAID’s youth ambassador program. I’m setting the blog up now so I can report on my pre-departure training in …

Sandra’s interview on Music Boom, Lao Music Show on Lao Star TV channel. Lao Fanclub webmaster was there at the studio to record the show for all Sandra’s fans to see.

Sandra’s performance of a Japanese song, “Na Da Zo Zo” at the Lao Plaza Hotel in Vientiane, on August 31, 2007. Video recorded by Lao Fanclub webmaster.

Sandra’s performance of “Memories” at the Lao Plaza Hotel in Vientiane, on August 31, 2007. Video recorded by Lao Fanclub webmaster.

Sandra’s performance of “Yark Ja Bork” at the Lao Plaza Hotel in Vientiane, on August 31, 2007. Video recorded by Lao Fanclub webmaster.

Bisean looks at the importance of white elephants to the royalty in continental South East Asia.

i thought that judges were supposed to know everything. well, this one didn’t. http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/08/22/news/279238.txtbut this points to the possibility of a push for deportations for unnaturalized Lao in the united states. (and on …

I like the Black Stupa in that it is a historical Tat that is simply in the middle of a roundabout in the middle of a busy town. No one selling postcards or pictures. You don’t have to make a special trip, you pass by it on your daily travels. It has…

Adjust your monitor for photographs, click on the photo so that it enlarges, and take a look. This is an LZ above Indian Creek in Utah. Notice how the wet Navajo Sandstone really shows it’s colour? Great Photo by Scott Lambert.Remember the descriptio…