CAMBODIA: March 27, 2008 CHAY ARENG RIVER, Cambodia - Along the Chay Areng valley in Cambodia’s remote Cardamom Mountains, children still scamper barefoot through one of mainland southeast Asia’s la…

The National Archives is joining with a Web site to make historical records of tens of thousands of deceased Vietnam War veterans available electronically for the first time. The interactive site _ h…

Bomb Harvest is an Australian made documentary about bomb disposal in Laos. To give you a blurb:In Laos, over two million tonnes of bombs were dropped during a war that at the time no-one knew about; the so-called ’secret war’. Now, thirty-five years later, the casualties from these unexploded ordnances or bombs are on the increase.A new documentary that premiered at this year’s Sydney Film Festival explores the consequences of war as it follows an Australian bomb disposal specialist, training locals in the skill of detonating bombs while trying to stop the locals, particularly children, from finding them and using them for scrap metal.I saw the documentary last week and thought it was excellent. I think they captured aspects of Lao culture really well. The main protagonist in the film is an Australian bomb disposal engineer who is helping to train a [...]

Thirteen Tropical Fruits
Fruits in Asia are amazing and people eat a lot of fruit. At the end of a meal, hosts offer fruit for desert. During the long hot afternoons, people will buy small sour fruits and berries which they eat with sugar and powdered chile peppers.

Some fruits can be found in the US, but they have to be eaten fresh before you really can experience them. Some of the following

footnote.com is a Web re-creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall.The goal is to tell the stories behind the more than 58,000 names on the wall, with information such as specialt…

Bangkok: Chevron Corp. has found at least six trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Malay Basin offshore southwest Vietnam, it said yesterday. The company said in a statement that a three-month dr…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives is joining with a Web site to make historical records of tens of thousands of deceased Vietnam War veterans available electronically for the first time.

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand were beaten 1-0 at home by Oman in a massive blow to their World Cup qualifying hopes on Wednesday. Ismail Al Ajmi’s first-minute strike proved decisive as goalkeeper Ali …

Free Email Newsletter The body of Imam Yapa Koseng, a 56-year-old Muslim religious leader arrested by the army on March 19, 2008, showed visible signs of torture, relatives said. Human Rights Watch …

More photos from the Lao Food Festival 2008 in Vientiane last month. The first dish is soup phak from the northern region of Laos followed by another dish with a fancy name but to most of us would know it as soup nor mai som. The third dish is the famous Luang Prabang sausage that [...]