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Thailand: Identity Crisis?

Eve Blossom | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, International Relations, Laos, World Politics, World News
Eve Blossom

This week marks the 82nd birthday of Thailand's king, who is loved and revered highly by many Thais. The question is: will Thailand be an anchor in Southeast Asia or a hot spot of insecurity?

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Interview: Visqueen's Rachel Flotard Sends a Powerful Message

Michael Bialas | Posted 11.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Emerald City, Laos, Message to Garcia, Neko Case, Kim Warnick, George Flotard, Rock, Ben Hooker, Jon Rauhouse, Cnn, Seattle, New Jersey, The New Pornographers, Tom Cummings, Cheap Trick, Cristina Bautista, Rachel Flotard, Power Pop, Underground, Elo, Kstw, Nodepression, Entertainment News
Michael Bialas

Rachel Flotard, the do-it-all frontwoman for power-popping, Seattle-based Visqueen is planning a fundraiser, promoting a record, running her own label, preparing for a trip to Southeast Asia in December and hustling to book a major tour for 2010.

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Best Places For Smokers Traveling Abroad: A Top-10 List

LA Times | Mark Milian | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

Read More: Smokers, Smoking, Serbia, Smoking Rules, Laos, Travel, Balkans, No Smoking, Boznia Herzegovina, Lung Cancer, Belarus, Cigarettes, Health, Russia, Smoking Permitted, Samoa, Cancer, Smoking Allowed, Tobacco, Austria, Greece, Nauru, World News

With so many places around the world instituting smoking regulations, increasing taxes and, quite literally, kicking smokers to the curb, it's getting...

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Typhoon Ketsana batters Southeast Asia

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Laos, The Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Home News

Typhoon Ketsana struck several Southeast Asian countries leaving hundreds dead and millions homeless. It triggered the worst flooding in the Philippi...

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Hospital's New Policy Welcomes Role of Hmong Shamans

New York Times | PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Soul Cleansing, Shamans, Holistic Medicine, Laos, Clergy, Gem Theory, Faith, Hospital Policy, Health, Laotian, Eastern-Style Medicine, California, Shamanism, Certified Shamans, Vietnam, Merced, Health Care, Hmong, Mercy Medical Center, Healing, Western-Style Medicine, Living News

At Mercy Medical Center in Merced, where roughly four patients a day are Hmong from northern Laos, healing includes more than IV drips, syringes and b...

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The Scandal of International Religious Persecution

Doug Bandow | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: People's Republic of China, Somalia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Laos, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Iraq, China, Eritrea, Iran, Belarus, Indonesia, Vietnam, Religious Liberty, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Islam, Turkey, Religious Persecution, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Religion, Tajikistan, Burma, Venezuela, Sudan, Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea, Eqypt, World News
Doug Bandow

There is a good argument for treating religious liberty as the first freedom. If a government is unwilling to protect basic freedom when it comes to religious faith, then it is unlikely to tolerate political free-thinking either.

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Samantha Orobator, Pregnant Briton Jailed In Laos, Going Home

AP | KIKO ROSARIO | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: England, Samantha Orobator Goes Home, Samantha Laos, Laos, Samantha Orobator Trial, Samantha Orobator, Pregnant Brit Laos, Orobator, Samatha Orobator, Orobator Pregnancy, World News

VIENTIANE, Laos — A pregnant Briton sentenced to life imprisonment in Laos for trafficking heroin flew home Thursday to serve the remainder of h...

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Study: Pollution Killing Off Last Of Irrawaddy Dolphins

AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Cambodia, Irrawaddy Dolphins, Environment, Pollution, Animals, Laos, Green News

BANGKOK — Pollution in the Mekong River is putting the rare Irrawaddy dolphin in danger of disappearing from Cambodia and Laos, according to a s...

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Samantha Orobator Sentenced To Life By Lao Court

AP | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Asia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News, Laos, Samantha Orobator, Samantha Orobator Mother, Samantha Orobator Sentence, England, United Kingdom, Orobator, Pregnant Brit Laos, Laos Prison, Samantha O Life in Prison, Samantha Orobator Sentenced to Life by Lao Court, World News

VIENTIANE, Laos — A court in Laos found a pregnant British woman guilty of trafficking heroin and sentenced her to life in prison Wednesday, a c...

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Drug charge woman 'impregnated herself'

The Independent | Independent | Posted 07.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Laos, Home News

A British woman facing trial in Laos for alleged heroin trafficking secretly impregnated herself with the sperm of another prisoner in a bid to escap...

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The March of Folly, Continued

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cognitive Dissonance, Barbara Tuchman, Predator Drones, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Vietnam, John Kennedy, Pakistan, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, The March of Folly, Baghdad-Iraq, Iraq, Fallujah-Iraq, Politics News
Norman Solomon

Obama can make many wise comments about past international affairs while proceeding with actual policies largely unfettered by the wisdom.

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Samantha Orobator Likely To Serve Sentence In UK Instead Of Laos

Guardian | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: David Miliband, England, Foreign Affairs, Samantha Orobator Sentence, Asia, Laos, Samantha Orobator, Samantha Orobator Mother, Advocacy, World News

The pregnant British woman accused of drug trafficking in Laos could be allowed back to Britain to serve her sentence if convicted at next week's tria...

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The Underperformers: How Key U.S. Officials Have Shaped a Tribal Crisis

Roger Warner | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Terrorism, Terror Trial, Vang Pao, Terrorism, Laos, Hmong, Bill Lair, Thailand, Roger Warner, C.I.A., Lair, John Keker, Keker, World News
Roger Warner

As it turns out, underperformance and doublespeak are par for the course among U.S. officials involved in the three-nation Hmong crisis.

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Samantha Orobator Won't Face Death, Due To Pregnancy: Laos

AP | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: England, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Laos, British Woman Laos, Samantha Orobator, Samantha Orobator Mother, Crime, Orobator, Samantha Pregnant, World News

BANGKOK — A pregnant British woman accused of trafficking heroin in Laos will not face the death penalty because the law bans executing expectan...

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Mother Of Samantha Orobator, British Woman Facing Death In Laos, Pleads For Her Release

Huffington Post | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: British Woman Laos, Laos Death Penalty, Pregnant Woman Laos, Laos Drug Smuggling, Laos British Woman, Laos, Samantha Orobator, Samantha Orobator Mother, Samantha Laos, Orobator, Orobator Samantha, British Woman Held Over Drug Smuggling in Laos, Laos Samantha, World News

The Daily Telegraph reports that the mother of Samantha Orobator, a pregnant British woman who faces the death penalty in Laos for allegedly smuggling...

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Water Festival Carries On Despite Thai State Of Emergency (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons, Kelly van der Kwast | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Water Festival Deaths, Water Festival, Water Throwing, Thailand Celebration, Myanmar Junta, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Tourism, Thailand Political Upheaval, Red Shirt Protests, Buddhism, New Year, Burma, Water Festival Photos, Burma New Year, Songkran, Slideshow, Bangkok-Thailand, Cambodia, World News

* Scroll down for photos of New Year's celebrations across Asia. Southeast Asia is drenched in celebration this year for the Water Festival, a festiv...

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The C.I.A.'s tribe in danger

Roger Warner | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Central Intelligence Agency, Vang Pao, Laos, Hmong, Bill Lair, Refugee, Roger Warner, C.I.A., Politics News
Roger Warner

By visiting these "jungle" Hmong, by speaking with them directly, Lair had confirmed that there was an inner core of legitimate refugees whom the U.S. government should help.

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The Weirdest Terrorism Court Case in America

Roger Warner | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Bill Lair, Laos, John Keker, Terrorism, Doj, USA vs. Harrison Jack, Hmong, Department of Justice, Roger Warner, C.I.A., Politics News
Roger Warner

The real tragedy is that, whatever happens or doesn't happen with this misguided federal court case, some innocent tribal people are being killed.

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Obama Administration Needs to Take a Stand on Cluster Bombs

Donald Steinberg | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Lebanon, Montenegro, Kosovo, World, War, George W. Bush, Serbia, Obama Administration, Weapons, Laos, Barack Obama, Politics, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Munitions, Albania, Mines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iraq, Barack Obama Administration, President Clinton, World News
Donald Steinberg

Cluster munitions are particularly evil weapons. On falling to the ground, these bombs and shells separate into dozens of small bomblets, exploding on the enemy and civilians.

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Truth or Reconciliation?

John Feffer | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Vietnam War, Banja Luka, Laos, Srebrenica, Bosnia Farm, Bosnia, Croatia, World News
John Feffer

In urban plots throughout Bosnia, families from different faiths and backgrounds coaxed vegetables from the ground and rebuilt relationships shattered by war.

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Forty Years After 'Secret War' In Laos, Countries Sign Convention Banning Cluster Bombs

The Guardian | Ian MacKinnon in Phonsavanh, Laos | Posted 01.02.2009 | World

Read More: Cluster Bombs, Secret War Laos, Southeast Asia, Vietnam War, Secret War, Vietnam, Laos, Asia, World News

More than 100 countries will today sign a convention banning the use of cluster bombs. In Laos, the most bombed nation on earth, their lethal legacy i...

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Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino: Who Knew He Could Act? Like John Wayne in True Grit, it May Lead to an Oscar

Michael Russnow | Posted 12.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Dustin Hoffman, Million Dollar Baby, Russnow, William Holden, Bee Vang, Laos, True Grit, Oscar, John Wayne, Movies, Clint Eastwood, Laurence Olivier, Nick Schenk, Ahney Her, Dave Johansson, Vietnam, Michigan, Michael Russnow, Dirty Harry, Cambodia, Korean War, Leonardo Dicaprio, Unforgiven, Hmong, Breezy, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

John Wayne found True Grit towards the end of his career and now Clint Eastwood has done the same with an unforgettable performance in Gran Torino.

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Virtual Obama, Virtual JFK

Norman MacAfee | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eisenhower, Koji Masutani, Vietnam, Berlin, Laos, James Blight, Documentary Film, Obama, Lbj, Jfk, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News
Norman MacAfee

I urge you to see a new film, Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived, by Koji Masutani, now at the Film Forum in New York through September 30.

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Where In The World Is Matt Lauer? Day 3

Huffington Post | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Matt Lauer Laos, Matt Lauer, Laos, Where in the World Is Matt Lauer, Media News

So far, this week has brought Matt Lauer to Buenos Aires and to the Netherlands, but where in the world is Matt Lauer today? The clue: "This country...

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