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Motorola is teaming up with one of Thailand’s leading fiberoptic service providers, UIH, to test a mobile WiMAX trial system in the cities of Bangkok and Phuket. Thailand hopes to begin offering comme…

Vietnam vet awarded Bronze Star decades late

EAST EUGENE - It’s an honor more than thirty years in the making. Tuesday, a Vietnam War veteran received the prestigious Bronze Star for valor. U.S. Congressman Peter DeFazio presented the award to F…

ST. PAUL (AP) - The U.S. Ambassador to Laos says he is working with Laotian officials to find three St. Paul men reported missing in the southeast Asian country.

Vietnam ‘hub for illegal timber’

Vietnam has become a major South-East Asian hub for processing illegally logged timber, according to a report from two environmental charities. The trade threatens some of the last intact forests i…

Ambassador to Laos says US working to find missing St. Paul men
West Central Tribune, MN - 3 hours ago
Ambassador Ravic R. Huso traveled to St. Paul on Wednesday to visit one of the largest Hmong enclaves in the United States. Thousands of Hmong refugees from

Home Made in Laos

Samples of home made products in Laos that were on display at the Lao Traditional Food Festival 2008, at the Lao National Culture Hall last month (February 22-23). The colorful candles would be something that I would buy for myself or give away as gifts. I particularly like the candles in a shape of Dok [...]

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HANOI, Vietnam – An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced an Australian woman to death for heroin trafficking, a court official said Wednesday. Vietnam-born Jasmine Luong, 34, of Sydney…

Cambodia’s King Sihamoni to visit Brunei

Phnom Penh - Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni is to visit Brunei, a fellow member of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, next week, state media reported Wednesday. He was scheduled t…

Teams from among the 425 military and civilian workers at Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command routinely go to Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, Europe, China and islands in the Pacific to search for remains. They often spend years working to positively identify every set of remains, though a key for them is to locate family members who can provide DNA samples for comparison.

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