Dengue fever has sickened more than 2,800 people and killed four in Thailand this year, sparking worries about a possible wider outbreak despite efforts to control the disease, the health ministry sai…

At the Luang Prabang northern bus station, the cat hopped on a waiting songthaew with Mr Belgian 2, a falang couple & a few Lao. Didn’t travel far before the cat was greeted by a sign of Singapore - a signboard for the Luang Prabang branch of Informatics computer school!

First stop on the 10,000kip ride was at the turn-off to the road leading to Wat Pa Phon Pao & Ban Phanom, just after crossing

HA NOI — Viet Nam and Laos have vowed to foster education co-operation in 2008 with an agreement signed in Ha Noi yesterday. Signatories were Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thien Nhan and Lao Minister of Education Somkot Mangnormek.

Actually wanted to leave today, but my neighbour, OZ (australien) guy had his 24th birthday yesterday so I had to celebrate with the guys , go some buckets (still do not like the Thai whoskey brr) etc :)Will leave tomorrow.Island is pretty strange,esp…

Filipino women are allegedly being used as couriers of illegal drugs from Lao People’s Democratic Republic to neighboring countries in the region. The Philippine embassy in Vientiane said a syndicate has been duping Filipino women to carry the illegal substances across the Laotian borders.

[170208] even before the cat has finished writing about its first trip to Laos, or written anything about the second, it is already dreaming of a third:

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Why the places on this clockwise route starting/ending in Vientiane:
1. because it’s there
2. because there’s no one else there

Hence the two ‘Ly’s - Sayabouly & Phongsaly, the southwest & northeast

แมเนอเจอร์ออนไลน์—เจ้าหน้าที่ลาวกับเจ้าหน้าที่องค์การยูเนสโกแห่งสหประชาชาติยังคงค้นหาไหหินต่อไป หลังจากพบว่ายังมีอีกอย่างน้อย 2,000 ใบฝังอยู่ใต้ดินแขวงเซียงขวาง ปัจจุบันกำลังค้นหาอยู่ในท้องที่เมืองหนองแฮด (Nong Hed) ติดกับชายแดนเวียดนาม ซึ่งพบว่ามีไหหินเกาะกลุ่มในจำนวนที่แน่นหนามาก

Bangkok - Thailand hopes to normalize diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia by “concluding the Blue Diamond” case, involving at least four unsolved murders of Saudi diplomats and millions of dollars’…

Bangkok - Home owners in the vicinity of Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi Airport have threatened to “seize the sky” on February 23 with balloons and rockets to pressure authorities into compensating them f…