A very nice photo slides of Laos with cool music in the background.
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In an attempt to halt the soaring rice price crisis confronting Asia, a number of regional nations have proposed setting up an Opec-style cartel for exporters of the staple on which billions of people…

Asian countries sought Friday to tame the spiraling rice market, with Thailand proposing an OPEC-style cartel for exporters and the Philippines shoring up supplies while aiming to end its status as th…

The United Nations mission in Vietnam recently announced that two new methadone clinics in the northern port city of Hai Phong, Vietnam, have opened to treat injection drug users and reduce the spread…

The crisis of skyrocketing food prices is affecting all economic groups in every corner of the world. Every day, it seems, high-priced food sends another country lurching through some crisis: demonstrations, riots, rumors of hoarding, falling governments, even deaths.
Global Voices is well positioned to follow the nuances of this complex issue with authors tracking citizen [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. religious freedom watchdog group urged the United States on Friday to put Vietnam back on a religious rights blacklist, two years after the communist country was removed …

AUSTIN (AP) — Politically crippled by the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson still sounded like a candidate for re-election in private 1968 telephone conversations just before deciding to pull …

Washington - An independent US group that monitors religious freedom around the world on Friday urged the US government to put Vietnam back on its list of the most serious violators. In its annual rep…

MANILA, Philippines — Asian countries sought Friday to tame the spiraling rice market, with Thailand proposing an OPEC-style cartel for exporters and the Philippines shoring up supplies while aiming …

In the Arab World, the beauty pageant is one of the most conservative without a bikini in sight; this is Miss Arab World Beauty Pageant 2007. Women from across the Arab world came together to compete in Cairo, Miss Bahrain, Wafa Yaqoop (below) is crowned the winner.

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