Recording company SD Studios Inc held a singing, dancing and modelling contest at Vientiane Secondary School on Saturday.

The contest, entitled “Pop Idol 2008” played out in front of more…

Mong-Lan, poet, writer, painter, photographer, and Argentine tango dancer, left her native Vietnam on the last day of the evacuation of Saigon in 1975. Mong-Lan’s first book of poems, Song of the Cicadas, won the 2000 Juniper Prize, the 2002 Great Lake…

Born in New York City in 1950, Arthur Sze is a second-generation Chinese American, and the author of five volumes of poetry, including The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His poems appear in numer…

In The Name of Poetry: An Interview With Xue DiOriginally published in 2001 by Asian American Press, St. Paul, MN. Picture by John Foraste.Interviewer’s Introduction:Xue Di is a native of Beijing. After taking part in the demonstrations in Tian’anmen S…

(New York, March 5, 2008) - The Thai government should stop forcibly returning Hmong asylum seekers to Laos without independent monitoring or refugee screening, Human Rights Watch said today.

Source: Human Rights Watch (New York, March 5, 2008) – The Thai government should stop forcibly returning Hmong asylum seekers to Laos without independent monitoring or refugee screening, Human Rights Watch said today. On …

Neatorama has archived: 6 Horrifying Parasites. A classic article from 2006 that first appeared in Mental Floss Magazine, it should serve as a certain reminder that nature isn’t always cuddly and should be treated with great respect.This sacculina carc…