Blogger Edicio dela Torre explains why “In Lao PDR, NGO refers to international NGOs.” He adds: “If you apply the name NGO to a Laotian organization, it is interpreted as an anti-government organization.” Local NGOs are known as “non-profit associations.”

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Negotiators opened their first talks on forging a devilishly complex global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol — and faced wide divisions between rich and d…

An impressive hip hop concert featuring beat boxing, dancing, disk scratching and rapping surprised a capacity crowd at the Mekong Deck restaurant on Friday night.

The massive concert, in front of…

This month’s challenge on NaBloPoMo is ‘letters’ - however you want to interpret them.

Dear Sky,

Thanks for the rain yesterday. It was quite a surprise, since the weather has been doing its usual thing of parading through March and April, getting hotter drier and dustier.

This morning I was greeted by the sunrise - pinks and reds over the mountains. It was an impressive sight after such a long

THAILAND: April 1, 2008 BANGKOK - The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human…

(Photo) from left, Fanta, Jackie and Ta perform at concert to launch a youth helpline service.

New pop band Fuzion, who are members of the Lao Bangfai Breakdancing Club, are now…

Seeing as your children are cooks, it seems only natural to visit their place of work, and pay special attention to the work that happens behind the scenes.
It seemed only natural that my parents wanted to inspect the kitchen, it is, after all, the heart of the home (or workplace in our case).

Junior discusses the [...]

BANGKOK: Negotiators from around the world got to work on Monday on drafting a battle plan against global warming that a top UN official warned could be the most complicated treaty in history.