Subject : Lao PDR Government lacks of ability in Education field then blames teachers
Sithiphone.
Prime minister Thongsing has critised to the wrong spot. It is not the fault of the teachers, it is Prime minister, politebureau and your own government lack of abilities to run the country, LPDR government system is out of Law and Order. In Lao society every body can name the riches people in Laos, where did they get those money from?
Mr Thongsing should tell your elite politebureau team leaders to sacrifice their wealth for the Lao children to gain their education. This is the better way to upgreat the level of Lao education
English to French translation Le Premier ministre a Thongsing critised au mauvais endroit. Ce n'est pas lafaute des enseignants, il est Premier ministre, politebureau et votre manque de capacités propre gouvernement pour diriger le pays, le système de gouvernementRDPL est hors de Law and Order. Dans la société laotienne tout organisme peutnommer les personnes les richesses au Laos, où sont-ils obtenir ces argent? M.Thongsing devriez dire à votre chef d'équipe d'élite politebureau à sacrifier leur fortune pour les enfants du Laos afin d'obtenir leur éducation. C'est la meilleure façon de upgreat le niveau de l'éducation du Laos
Phom
You have a good point of the education in Laos similar Dr Khampheuy saying in the Assembly. Heua lhom nai nhong thong cha pai sai ? Khon Lao Love Khon Lao.
Security, safety, freedom of Lao overseas retiree are the best option for Lao education.
Lao Nork people have learnt how to donate, be a volunteer so at least some of them can help teaching in the school.
English to French translation Vous avez un bon point de l'éducation au Laos similaires Khampheuy Dr disant à l'Assemblée. Heua lhom nai nhong string cha pai sai ? Khon Kaen Lao Lao Amour.
Sécurité, sûreté, la liberté de Lao retraité à l'étranger sont la meilleure option pourLao éducation.
Populaire lao Nork ont appris comment faire un don, devenir bénévole si au moinscertains d'entre eux peuvent aider à enseigner à l'école.
Chanh
Budgetting for education in Laos, -Laos can get the donating money from another countries, but if those countries stop donating , what is going to happen ? forcing them ? -Borrowing from another countries ? When to be able to pay back ? principal and interests. The longer the loan time the more accumulating interest amount.
-How about allowing any Laotians who love their country, mother land LAOS, coming to Laos if they want to help the country the ways their individual skills suppot without too much restriction.
Let's say there are 100,000 laotians with a retirement check of $ 1,000.00 per month. I would assume that anybody can see that the country would receive $ 100,000,000.00 ( one hundred million dollars a month ). When we are there we would spend the money on education support on our own individual family and the economy for the families wich summarising to : Heua lhom nai nhong thong cha pai sai ?
We will have our own pride then !!! We shall support each other in many positive ways, we should have known by now that to support each other in a negative ways will bring all of us down the drain, some countries look at us not quite as a human being they just do anything to us at their pleasure..
We shall have the brains which work good enough to see the differences between : the GOOD, the bad and the ugly ?
BBC South East Asia correspondent http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14328213 By Rachel Harvey
The EU is drafting new legislation to tighten regulation of the timber trade The Environmental Investigation Agency says the multi-million-dollar trade is causing the rapid disappearance of some of the region's last tropical forest. An international lobbying group has accused the Vietnamese army of involvement in the illegal export of timber from neighbouring Laos.
A Vietnamese military-owned company named in the report said it acted in full compliance with the laws of Laos.
The timber is processed in Vietnam into furniture with much exported to Europe.
The new EIA report comes at a time when the European Union is drafting new legislation to try to tighten regulation of the timber trade.
'Full compliance' Working undercover, the EIA said it had discovered that laws banning the export of raw timber from Laos were being routinely and openly flouted.
Most of the logs are being sent over the border to feed Vietnam's booming wood processing industry and to make furniture, much of which ends up in Europe and the US.
The lobbying group traced logs from virgin tropical forest in Laos to a Vietnamese company owned by the military.
Speaking to the BBC, the cited company rejected the accusations made against it, saying it was in full compliance with the laws of Laos.
But the EIA says the trade is illegal and the only beneficiaries are corrupt government officials and well-connected businessmen.
Some of the wood comes from areas being cleared to build hydroelectric dams - part of an ambitious Laotian project to become a major supplier of electricity to the wider Mekong region.
uly 28, 2011 5:21 AMLao forests feeding Vietnam industry, group says
(AP) BANGKOK — Despite an export ban, Vietnamese companies are smuggling logs from the once rich forests of Laos to feed a billion-dollar wood industry that turns timber into furniture for export to the Europe and the United States, an environmental group said Thursday.
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency alleged that the Vietnamese military was heavily involved in bribing Lao officials and then trafficking the timber on a massive scale to wood processing factories in neighboring Vietnam. This was denied by the government and military.
Laos, with some of the last intact tropical forests in the region, in 1999 slapped a ban on the export of raw timber and says it is expanding its forest cover. But there are widespread reports of rampant logging, often associated with the country's mushrooming dam projects and agricultural plantations.
"Vietnam is almost annexing areas of Laos to feed its own industries. The only winners in Laos are corrupt government officials and well-connected businessmen," Julian Newman, an EIA staffer, said at a news conference. The group focuses on environmental crime worldwide.
Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nguyen Phuong Nga denied the allegations.
"There is no smuggling of timber from Laos by the Vietnamese military," she said. "Vietnam pays special attention to environmental protection, strictly forbids smuggling and illegal exploitation of timber."
She said all "smuggling and illegal exploitation of timber will be strictly dealt with in accordance with Vietnamese law. The governments of Vietnam and Laos have been and will be coordinating to prevent all smuggling activities including timber smuggling."
Hanoi has acknowledged in the past that its forestry industry is unsustainable and it is currently negotiating with the European Community to certify its exported wood products as having originated from legal sources.
Vietnam, which exports some $4 billion worth of wood products, banned domestic logging in 1997.
In an undercover operation in 2010 and 2011, the group said it tracked logs in Laos obtained by three Vietnamese enterprises as they made their way across the porous border to factories in Vietnam. It estimates the enterprises yearly smuggle some 8.8 million cubic feet (250,000 cubic meters) of wood worth some $80 million.
One of the three was identified as the Vietnamese Company of Economic Cooperation, or COECCO, an enterprise run by the Vietnamese army and headquartered in the city of Vinh. The company has been in the logging business in Laos for two decades, EIA said.
But officials for the company in Vietnam said it had a license from the Lao government to import logs, obtaining them in exchange for roads and irrigation projects it has built in the country.
The company announced on its website last month the opening of bids for more than 1.2 million cubic feet (34,000 cubic meters) of logged limber imported from Laos. The officials declined to give their names, citing policy.
The Lao government, as part of its 2020 forestry strategy, says that it will "strictly implement the export ban on logs and sawn timber." The ban is covered in a 1999 law and a number of subsequent government orders.
Commenting on the military company's imports, Newman said it may have engineered a "one-off deal" because of its close ties with powerful Lao officials.
International aid agencies in Laos frequently complain that provincial power brokers often make their own business deals with foreign companies, sometimes in contravention to central government laws and regulations.
Video shot by EIA showed trucks hauling piles of logs from Laos into Vietnam and featured both Lao and Vietnamese businessmen talking about bribing Lao government officials to allow the illegal exports. EIA says its investigators posed as potential buyers.
Laos' export ban is also routinely flouted by companies supplying the wood industries of neighboring Thailand and China, EIA said.
EIA first exposed the illegal cross-border trade in 2008 and said that little has changed on the ground since, although the Vietnamese government is moving toward some kind of control.
"By the time the deals (with EU and others) are signed, there won't be any forests left in Laos. Vietnam needs to get its act together and move quickly," Newman said.
The fate of this Boten casino in the so called special econonic zone will catch up one day in the future with the one in Don Xao under construction now, for sure.
If this is what the neokeo regime's propaganda of xalad xongxay ສຫລາດສ່ອງໄສ is all about, then may Bouddha save the people of Laos!
Les entreprises, personnes, les idées Dans La Jungle Bungle Ron Gluckman, 27/07/11, 18:00 HAE Forbes Asia Magazine datée le 8 août 2011 L'idée a été une colonie économique chinoise dans le désert du Laos, et qui était d'accord avec le Laos. Puis les joueurs, des prostituées et des gangsters pris le relais, et ce n'était pas d'accord avec la Chine.
Les bâtiments roses étaient destinés à servir des hôtels et des bureaux à Boten.Commerces et logements en face ont été rasés pour faire place à un nouveau marché.
Partout en Asie, une fois en arrière-régions ont bondi dans le boom qui a sorti des millions de la pauvreté - les monuments du miracle économique asiatique. Mais il ya eu grands projets qui allaient spectaculairement faux. Peu de comparer avec Golden Boten City, un projet qui a promis une ruche d'activité économique dans le nord du Laos par la frontière chinoise, mais aujourd'hui, assis solitaire et désolée.
Route 3 dans les régions montagneuses du Laos coupes à travers les plantations de caoutchouc et des forêts, un vaste tapis de verdure interrompu seulement par de minuscules villages - des groupes de cabanes sur pilotis et les populations tribales de brillants vêtements bleu, rouge et noir. Puis, soudain, il ya une compensation - et la vue surréaliste d'une douzaine de bâtiments énormes éruption du plateau dans des cloques nuances de rose, orange et jaune.
A des milliers de pointe Boten de personnes chaque jour coulé à travers la frontière de Chine province du Yunnan, sans précédent, grâce à l'accès sans visa. Comme les salles de jeux ont proliféré, des rangées de boutiques germé - un marché délabrées servant de Sin City. Une douzaine de magasins de lingerie répondait à des bataillons de prostituées chinoises, avec les meilleurs choix de talons aiguilles au Laos. Pharmacies stocké le sexe des potions aux côtés de racks de X-rated DVD et les conteneurs de la bile d'ours noir frais d'une usine de colline et utilisée en médecine traditionnelle chinoise. A côté de l'usine était une salle de Massive Entertainment roses qui se vantait montre travesti. Les ladyboys originaire de Thaïlande, mais tout le reste est venu de Chine: la bière, la police et pratiquement tous les concessionnaires, même la monnaie qui a rendu tout cela possible. Hôtel signes étaient en chinois, et les horloges Boten n'a pas courir au rythme paisible du Laos, mais ont été mis une heure d'avance à l'époque, la Chine. Boten a été complètement une colonie chinoise. Ceci est d'or Boten City, un "paradis pour la liberté et le développement», comme les brochures d'investissement a appelé. En 2003, un développeur a loué le site 21-squarekilometer du Laos depuis 99 ans, et des bâtiments a commencé à aller jusqu'à l'année prochaine. Le plan prévoyait une zone commerciale dans ce qui était prévu pour être un couloir de croissance clé, avec des liens routiers et ferroviaires du sud de la Chine vers les ports d'aussi loin que Bangkok et Singapour. Dessins illustrent un parcours de golf, une station de blocs et d'appartements en bordure des lacs et des lagunes pittoresques. Au lieu de cela, Boten est rapidement devenu un Gold Rush style Boomtown et, comme de nombreuses villes telles, réputé pour les bordels de jeu, le crime et animée.
Puis, aussi vite que des joueurs de la Chine fait de ce site distant dans le Macao de la jungle, le Golden Boten Ville fondu. Les histoires dans les médias chinois parlé otages détenus sur les dettes de jeux. Les habitants ont dit Forbes Asia du corps jetés dans la rivière. Chine coupé l'électricité et de services de télécommunications à l'enclave et a commencé visas exigeant. «Nous avons entendu les rapports des meurtres, des gens disparaissent," un fonctionnaire de Golden Boten Ltd Ville, le développeur, a déclaré à Forbes Asia lors d'une visite en mai. (Le promoteur a dit qu'il n'avait pas courir les casinos;. Qui a été fait par plusieurs opérateurs peu connus de l'étranger) "Nous ne contestons pas qu'il ya eu des problèmes ici, mais nous travaillons à les corriger."
Quelques jours plus tard les casinos dernière fermeture. Les magasins fermés par manque de clients, laissant derrière lui une offre énorme de talons aiguilles avec une photo géante de l'acteur américain George Clooney, regardant tristement à partir d'un luxe non ouvert Emporium, un des demi-douzaine de structures grandioses qui avaient été achevés, mais maintenant stand inutilisé. Les ours étaient encore emballés dans des cages, des traites de la bile, mais les ladyboys retourné en Thaïlande, et a été laissé Boten une ville fantôme.
L'homme derrière or Boten City est Huang Minxuan, 56 ans, qui avait été impliqué dans un casino au Myanmar avant qu'il ne soit fermé en une répression par Pékin sur le jeu juste-sur-la-frontière. (. Le jeu est interdit en Chine en dehors de Macao) Originaire de la province du Fujian, il a exploité une entreprise dans le Yunnan pendant quelques années avant d'enregistrer un grand nombre de sociétés à Hong Kong en 1997 et 1998 - toutes les longues dissous - et de gagner de Hong Kong de la citoyenneté , il est toujours le président honoraire de la Chambre de Commerce du Fujian dans le Yunnan.
Huang dit entre 200 millions et 300 millions ont été dépensés pour Boten, mais il ne dit pas d'où il vient ou combien d'c'était son argent. Médias chinois indiquent que il a servi comme directeur général d'une société de Hong Kong qui pompé 36 millions de dollars dans le projet quand il a commencé, mais aucune trace de l'entreprise peuvent être trouvés. Les investissements en second commandement, George Huang, 55 ans, une nationale taiwanaise qui a travaillé avec Huang Minxuan au casino du Myanmar, a déclaré petits venus de Thaïlande, à Singapour, au Royaume-Uni, la Russie et l'Ukraine. George n'a pas pu être contacté, il est soupçonné d'avoir quitté un emploi en Thaïlande après Boten effondré.
Casinos a commencé la germination au Myanmar le long de la frontière chinoise dans les années 1990, et éventuellement jusqu'à une centaine ont été exploitation.La plupart ont été modestes, parfois avec un hôtel, mais tous suivi la même formule: le déploiement des flottes de bateaux pour transporter les joueurs le long du Mékong, principalement de Chine, mais aussi en Thaïlande. Mais dans Boten, le Huang avait grandioses conceptions. Le Laos a été regardant le trafic touristique au Myanmar et a commencé vantant ses zones économiques spéciales pour les investisseurs. «J'ai été parlé dans l'idée», dit Huang Minxuan.
July 27, 2011 Britain Expels Gadhafi Diplomats, Recognizes Libyan Opposition VOA News
Photo: ReutersBritain has officially expelled all diplomats from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime and recognized the opposition Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday the move is based on the opposition's increasing legitimacy, competency and success in reaching out to Libyans across the country. He said Britain will deal with the Council just as it does governments all around the world.
Hague said the Transitional National Council is working towards a more open and democratic Libya, which is in "stark contrast" to Gadhafi, whose "brutality" against the Libyan people has stripped him of legitimacy.
The United States, France and more than 30 other countries have recognized the Transitional National Council as Libya's interim government.
Hague said the international community's military efforts have save thousands of lives in Libya. NATO has carried out airstrikes under a United Nations Security Council resolution to protect civilians.
Hague also announced Britain is releasing $149 million in frozen Libyan assets to assist the Libyan people.
Britain's decision to recognize the opposition comes a day after Libya's prime minister said Gadhafi's departure is not up for discussion.
Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi also said Tuesday there will be no way to have dialogue on Libya's political crisis until what he called NATO "aggression" stops.
He commented after talks with U.N. special envoy Abdul Elah al-Khatib, who met with the Libyan opposition on Monday in Benghazi.
Khatib said that after meeting with the government and opposition that it is clear the two sides are "far apart" on reaching a political solution. But he said both sides remain committed to working with the United Nations.
In Brussels, a NATO spokeswoman said allied forces will continue military operations in Libya for as long as needed, and that Gadhafi "cannot wait us out." Carmen Romero said NATO will keep up its airstrikes as long as pro-Gadhafi forces attack or threaten civilians.
The NATO strikes continue as a number of nations pursue diplomatic efforts to reach a political solution to the conflict between Gadhafi's government and the rebels seeking to oust him.
On Sunday, the head of Libya's opposition movement said Gadhafi and his family may stay in the country as long as they give up power and rebel leaders determine where and under what conditions they remain.
VN and Laos sign agreement on educational co-operation up to 2020 0 on Apr 25, 2011
VIENTIANE — Viet Nam and Laos have reached agreements on educational co-operation aimed at improving learning and teaching until 2020. The agreements were struck during a five-day visit to Laos by a high-ranking delegation from the Ministry of Education and Training, led by Minister Pham Vu Luan, which concluded today.
Prime Minister Thongsinh Thammavonghe last Friday thanked the Party, State and people of Viet Nam for helping his country in all aspects, especially education.
Over the past five decades, tens of thousands of Lao students had studied in Viet Nam, providing valuable human resources and strengthening friendship between the two nations, he said.
Thammavonghe said he hoped the Viet Nam Ministry and Lao Ministry of Education would strengthen their co-operation, particularly in human resources training, contributing to the two countries' relations.
Minister Luan congratulated Laos on its successful 9th National Congress of the People's Revolutionary Party.
VN officials seek management training opportunities in S Korea
SEOUL — A delegation seeking management training for government officials visited South Korea for three days last week.
The delegation was headed by deputy chairman of the Party Central Committee's Commission forOrganisation Nguyen Van Quynh.
The group held talks with several universities of international standard, including Korea University and Kangwon National University, which also offered wider support for officials, such as foreign language training and accommodation. — VNS
Thank you to explain the answer to Mr No name who is a member of this group. There are 700 people in the freelaosnetwork forum so when I publish news or messages in this group so Lao people in USA, Canada, France, Australia and Thailand seen the news and the messages. So the news should be in English, French and Lao or Thai ( I use Lao language from VOA's news but some news in Thai language because our team have no time to translate news into Lao Language.
Only moderator can publish news or messages in this forum and the third party does not know the name of our members of this group for the safety reason.
The policy of the international communities changes time by time so in the past we did and it was not successful but today it might be successful. All Lao patriotic groups should do the best to make thing change in Laos.
As I know there are 1500 pages documents, photos and Video to file the Genocide in Laos with ICC at The Hague that will make the case to reopen to consider depending on the international lawyers of the group's plan.
Railway ministry in 2 -trillion-yuan debt China ' s Ministry of Railways ( MOR ) was 1.98 trillion yuan ($294.87 billion ) in debt at the end of the first quarter of 2011, causing its asset-liability ratio to reach 58.24 percent , CNTV reported Tuesday . http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-07/19/content_12934824.htm
News HUD invests in a large urban project in Laos QĐND - Saturday, July 23, 2011, 21:10 (GMT+7)
Housing and Urban Development Group (HUD) has just signed an agreement with Viet Phuong Investment Group to invest in an urban area near That Luong Lake in Saysettha District, in the Lao Capital City of Vientiane.
Earlier, the Vientiane Mayor had entrusted the Viet Phuong Company with the construction of a town on an area of 100 ha in the City.
HUD President Nguyen Hiep said that under the Group’s strategy for 2015, it will boost its investment in property, housing and urban projects not only at home but also in other regional countries, especially neighbouring ones, which share common cultural characteristics and have friendly ties with Vietnam.
At this point, several of its member companies are in some regional countries like Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar to survey the markets and seek investment opportunities, said the Group’s President.
By Christopher Kremmer. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997. Illustrated. One map. pp. 215 + xi, $16.75 pb.
The bookshelf on Laos is small, and it is unusual to see three additions to it coming out within a twelve-month period. It is also notable that all three of these books are by Australians.
Martin Stuart-Fox has written the first book-length scholarly history of Laos in English. It will be a standard work for students of Southeast Asian history for many years to come. His narrative spans some 2,500 years, from the earliest recorded principalities in the middle Mekong valley to today's communist regime.
Stuart-Fox sees a basic unity and continuity over this long span of time. But this is not the case in terms of ethnic makeup, centralised political institutions, or territorial unity. Modern-day Laos had its origins in the kingdom of Lan Xang in the fourteenth century; however by the eighteenth century this had decayed into a string of local principalities tributary to the ascendant Siamese kingdom. It was French colonialism which created modern Laos as a territorial unit.
Stuart-Fox is well aware of all this. He argues that the continuity of Lao history lies at a local level, in the principalities of Luang Phrabang, Vieng Chan and Champassak, and in their distinctive shared culture. We know so little of the early principalities, however, that this is only an unverified hypothesis. More recently, much of this culture was shared with their Thai and Khmer neighbours, and Lan Xang is probably best understood as a successor-state emerging from the decomposition of the Angkorean empire.
The tragic story of Laos's fractious politics since 1945 takes up the larger part of Stuart-Fox's book. What would have been at best a weak state soon found itself caught in the military confrontation between the US, its military allies in Thailand, and the Vietnamese communists. Stuart-Fox gives a sympathetic account of the recurring efforts of Prince Suvanna Phuma to end this catastrophe by brokering a compromise. But these efforts were in vain.
The Lao communists assumed full power in late 1975. This reflected internal developments in Laos as well as external forces. Stuart-Fox argues that the French, and later the Americans, had thrown their weight behind conservatives who tried to create a nationalism based on royal legitimation and aristocratic patronage. The Royal Lao Government (RLG) created by these groups soon degenerated into a collection of regionally-based clans competing for the spoils of office and external patronage. They did little to rally support outside the lowland Lao population, and the king failed to become a focus of national loyalty. Backed by the Vietnamese, the Lao communists developed a politics of mass-mobilisation under the direction of a centralised, secretive leadership which was more inclusive (especially for the "minority" peoples of the highlands), and they eventually overwhelmed their opponents.
But the result was a dictatorial regime allied with and, Stuart-Fox asserts, subservient to Vietnam. Following the formation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), Stuart-Fox says that Lao independence remained incomplete until the collapse of the USSR, and the entry of Laos into ASEAN. But independence is a relative term, and the Lao communist leaders were quite capable of making their own mistakes.
In the last two decades, the LPDR leaders abandoned their initial hopes for a "socialist transformation" of Laos. They first sought to suppress, and then to develop, a market economy. They first cracked down on both traditional "superstitious" and Western "decadent" influences, and then permitted cultural liberalisation and a revival of Buddhism. "Reactionaries" were sent to reeducation camps or driven into exile, and then invited to rejoin the nation-building project. The king was forced to abdicate: he and his family were sent off to a remote part of the country for reeducation. From this they never reemerged, a fact about which government officials are still uncomfortable and evasive.
Amid all this confusion and backtracking, there was one constant -- the Lao communists sought to entrench the "leading role" of the ruling party they had created in control of a strong and centralised state apparatus. Stuart-Fox shows that in the 1980s and 1990s a superficial liberalisation has been accompanied by a revival of patronage politics, nepotism and corruption, and, apparently in an effort to restore discipline, by the growth of the influence of the military within the ruling party and the government.
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Editorial Reviews From Library Journal When the Pathet Lao forced the last king of Laos, Savang Vathana, to abdicate, they snuffed out a 600-year-old monarchy. Twenty years later, Kremmer, an Australian foreign correspondent then based in Hanoi, tried unsuccessfully to crack the mystery behind the fate of the royals. In this first-rate travelog we see a Laos on the cusp of change, its charm lying in the absence of commercialism. Kremmer appears unimpressed by the Lao revolution of 1975 and its aftermath when he presents the historical and political underpinnings of that period. We see the Laotian face of communism through meetings with government and Communist party functionaries, ex-royals, and businessmen; and the region's culture is captured through accounts of festivals and visits to wats. Considering the paucity of recent travel narratives about Laos, readers will be well served by this engaging book. Stan Sesser's The Lands of Charm and Cruelty (LJ 5/1/93) has a chapter on Laos. Recommended for both academic and public libraries.?Ravi Shenoy, Hinsdale P.L., Naperville, IL Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description Twenty years after the Indochina wars, Christopher Kremmer visited Laos--at the crossroads of change in Southeast Asia.
He started his journey in the tranquility of Luang Prabang, once the royal capital. But despite its ancient culture and stately airs, the town--like Laos itself--is a place of secrets, mysteries and nagging questions. Setting off in search of the lost royal family, a 600-year-old dynasty consumed by the violent troubles of the 1960s and 1970s, the author reveals a small land-locked corner of Asia struggling to come to terms with the legacies of the American war and Asian communism. This is travel with a mission and it takes the author deep into Laos--to the bomb craters and enigmatic stone containers of the Plain of Jars, the brooding caves and limestone peaks of Houaphan near the Lao border with Vietnam, and the southern provinces bordering Cambodia.
ສິ່ງທີ່ຫ້ນາແປກໃຈຄື:ປທ ສຫຣອມຣກ ແມ່ນວ່າເຂົາມີ ລຖບ ໃຫ່ຍ (Big government or Socialist system of governance ) ຈົນ ລຖບ ເຂົາ ຂາດງົບປະມານແຫ່ງຊາດຢ່າງຍ້ອຍຍັບ ແຕ່ເຂົາບໍ່ໃດ້:
เจ้า ข้าเอ้ย พวกเจ้ามันจะให้ค่าแรงกรรมกรวันละ 150 บาท เงินทั้งประเทศที่หาได้ต่อปี (จีดีพี) มี 10 ล้านล้านบาท ค่าแรงกรรมกรทั้งประเทศแค่ 1 ล้านล้านบาท แค่เอาเงินค่าเช่าที่ดินและกำไรของไอ้บอดต่อปี มาจ่ายกรรมกร จะได้เพิ่มอีกวันละ 500 บาทต่อคน จีดีพี ปี2553 จำนวน334,026 ล้าน:US$(10ล้านล้านบาท) ***ค่าแรงทั้งปี แค่ 1 ล้านล้านบาท--ที่เหลือเจ้าเอาไปแดกกว่าครึ่ง http://bit.ly/n84IRs 18 Jul 11, 03:14 PM .now, is not it an official program of visits, but now always seeps through, such as recreational use of His Royal Highness looks when he is traveling in Bavaria...tens of minibuses, limousines two: the royal entourage was parked directly in front of the strawberry field. The driver of the limousine left, the motors continue to run the way during the two hour Pflückaktion...Security forces had inspected the entire place, for ladies Just in case, even the toilets are disinfected again. But then everything happened very quickly. The convoy stopped, ordered four curry sausages and ten cappuccino had to pack up everything and off you went. สื่อเยอรมันตีข่าว ว่าเสี่ยโอมาเยอรมันเป็นเรื่องส่วนตัวไม่ได้มาเยือนอย่างเป็นทางการ มาเก็บสตอเบอรี่ ใช้รถเป็นขบวนเปิดเครื่องทิ้งรอไว้ทั้งสองชั่วโมงครึ่งที่เก็บสตอเบอรี่ เสร็จแล้วก็ไปกินอาหารที่ภัตราคารใกล้ๆ ไปแวะแค่แป๊บเดียว แค่ซื้อไส้กรอก แม่งต้องมีเจ้าหน้าที่รักษาความปลอดภัยเข้าเช็คพื้นที่ แถมไปยุ่มยามในห้องน้ำของภัตราคาร เพื่อให้แน่ใจว่าห้องน้ำสะอาดปราศจาคเชื้อโรค แถมค้างหนี้ค่าอาหารเพราะเงินมีไม่พอ http://www.tz-online.de/nachrichten/bayern/prinz-erdbeerfeld-1326505.html
The Prince and the Currywurst http://www.wochenblatt.de/nachrichten/kelheim/regionales/Der-Prinz-und-die-Currywurst;art1176,57462 // ข่าวและภาพร้านอาหารที่เยอรมันที่เสี่ยโอ เมีย ลูก และสมุน บังคับให้เขาต้อนรับตนเองเป็นพิเศษเพื่อกินไส้กรอก และ กาแฟ และในที่สุด ก็ชักดาบเบี้ยวไม่จ่ายเงิน เจ้าของร้านบอกว่าพวกเจ้ามาสร้างความรำคาญและนำความซวยมาให้ทางร้าน
ແຕ່ ພໍມາເຫັນ ຄໍາຕູ່ຫາຂອງທ່ານ ພ້ອມທັງປະນາມວ່າ ພວກລຸ້ນເກົ່າ ບໍ່ໄດ້ທໍາການຕໍ່ສູ້ ເພື່ອປະຊາທິປະຕັຍ ໃຫ້ແກ່ລາວ : I never said Lao Nok that they were not fighting for democracy in Laos but I should say : they fought each other among the Lao leaders. ຂພຈ ມີແຕ່ໄດ້ຍິນ ປະໂຍກ ທີ່ທ່ານເອົາມາໄຊ້ ນີ້ຈາກປາກ ຂອງພວກທີ່ ແນວລາວສົ່ງອອກມາຕ່າງປະເທດ ເພື່ອ ສິ້ງຊອມ ສອດແນມ ເພື່ອລາຍງານເຂົ້າໄປ ສປປລ ເພື່ອໃຫ້ແກວດັລສູນ ເທົ່ານັ້ນເອງ...ບໍ່ເຄີຽໄດ້ຍິນ ແລະບໍ່ເຄີຽເຫັນວ່າ ພວກ ກອງ ກໍາລັງ ກຼ້ຊາຕ ຂອງພວກເຮົາ ຈະຍົກທັບຍິງກັນຈັກເທື່ອ..ຈະມີ ກໍພຽງດະດານ ແນວຄິດ ເລັກນ້ອຽ ເທົ່ານັ້ນ...
"International rule age 65 can retire but they did not give chance for young people to contnue the job" : ຄວາມຫມາຍໃນ ປະໂຍກນີ້ ກໍ່ເຊັ່ນດຽວກັນ....ຕອນທີ່ ຂພຈ ໂຕນຫນລອດຕາຍ ມາເຖິງ ເມຣິກາ ຂພຈ ກໍ ມີອາຍຸ ພຽງ ສີ່ສິບເກົ້າປີ...ມາເຖິງ ບໍ່ພໍປີ ກໍມີຜູ້ຕາງຫນ້າ ອົງການຈັດຕັ້ງ ຂອງ ແນວໂຮມ ປົດປ່ອຍຊາຕ ຊຶ້ງແມ່ນ ຫົວຫນ້າພວກເພິ່ນ ກໍ່ແມ່ນ ທ່ານ ພຍາຫລວງ ເມືອງຈັນ ອູ່ທອງ ສຸວັນ ນະວົງສ໌ ເປັນປະທານ ລວມທັງ ອາດີດ ແປດພຍາ ໃນ ຣະບອບເກົ່າ ໄດ້ໄປທາບທາມ ໃຫ້ ຂພຈ ເຂົ້າຮ່ວມ... ຊຶ້ງການທີ່ ທ່ານ ເວົ້າ ວ່າ ພວກຜູ້ເຖົ້າ ບໍ່ປ່ອບ ໂອກາດໃຫ້ ຊາວຫນຸ່ມ ເຂົ້າຮ່ວມ ນັ້ນ ຄົງຈະຜິດແລ້ວ...ອີກ ປະກາຫນຶ່ງ ທີ່ທ່ານ ບໍ່ຮູ້ ວ່າແມ່ນໃຜ ເປັນຫົວຫນ້າ ນັ້ນ ກໍ່ເຊັ່ນດຽວກັນ ເພາະ ທ່ານຫົວຫນ້າ ເພິ່ນກໍ່ຕັ້ງຖິ່ນ ຖານ ຢູ່ Australie ໃນປະເທດດຽວກັບທ່ານນີ້ເອງ...ອາດຈະມີບາງຊາວຫນຸ່ມທີ່ພວກເພິ່ນບໍ່ໃຫ້ຮ່ວມ ຖ້າ ເພິ່ນຮູ້ວ່າ ມາເຄື່ອນໃຫວ ໃຫ້ແກ່ ຝ່າຽ ຄມນ...ແຕ່ ຂພຈ ຄິດວ່າ ທ່ານ ຄົງບໍແມ່ນ ລາວລິ້ງ ແນ່ນອນ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index: ASA 26/003/2010 29 September 2010 Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Amnesty International urges immediate and unconditional release of long-held peaceful demonstrators, to guarantee freedom of speech, and to fully respect the rights of asylum-seekers Human Rights Council adopts Universal Periodic Review outcome on Lao People’s Democratic Republic Amnesty International welcomes the engagement of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic with the Universal Periodic Review as part of its stated efforts to promote and protect human rights. It deeply regrets, however, that the Lao People’s Democratic Republic rejected the recommendation to release peaceful demonstrators. 1 At least five men were arrested on 26 October 1999 for attempting to hold a peaceful demonstration in Vientiane and calling for peaceful economic, political and social change. Three are reported to remain in detention despite having completed their 10-year prison sentences. Thongpaseuth Keuakoun, a father of seven children, Seng-Aloun Phengphanh and Bouavanh Chanhmanivong should have been released at the latest in October 2009. Amnesty International strongly urges the Lao authorities to demonstrate its commitment to protecting human rights in practice and to release the three men immediately and unconditionally. Amnesty International welcomes the government’s support of those recommendations, announced in the Addendum to the report of the review, that call for full implementation of provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) related to freedom of speech, including through review of domestic legislation. 2 The organization is disappointed, however, that recommendations to revoke laws that suppress the right to freedom of expression and assembly were rejected. 3 The reasons provided for rejection appear to reflect the government’s wish to retain the strong limitations on the right to freedom of expression currently in place, which are contrary to the ICCPR provisions it claims to support. Amnesty International urges the government to reconsider its position on these recommendations. Several states made recommendations with regard to the thousands of Lao Hmong, including refugees and asylum-seekers forcibly returned from Thailand to Laos in December 2009. 4 Amnesty International regrets the government’s only partial support for these recommendations and urges it to ensure unhindered and independent access by UNHCR and humanitarian agencies to all returnees in resettlement sites at Phalak and Nongsan in Vientiane Province and Phonkham in Borikhamsay Province. While the authorities have organized several visits to these sites for diplomats and journalists, full and free access was not provided and opportunities for returnees to speak freely to the visitors without repercussions were extremely limited. This hampered a proper assessment of conditions and treatment of returnees. The Lao government has a responsibility to respect the right of all persons to seek asylum, as provided in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Amnesty International 1 A/HRC/15/5, paragraph 99.3. 2 A/HRC/15/5, paragraphs 98.41, 98.43 and 98.44, and A/HRC/15/5, Add.1, paragraph 1. 3 A/HRC/15/5, paragraphs 98.42 and 98.45, and A/HRC/15/5, Add.1, section III, paragraphs 25 and 26. 4 A/HRC/15/5, paragraphs 98.27, 98.28, 98.29, 98.30, 98.31 and 98.32.
International Labour Conference Provisional Record 20 100th Session, Geneva, June 2011 Thirteenth sitting Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 10.35 a.m. President: Mr Nkili
REPORTS OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE GOVERNING BODY AND OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL: DISCUSSION (CONT.)
Original French: The PRESIDENT We will continue our discussion of the Reports of the Chairperson of the Governing Body and of the Director-General.
Original Lao: Mr LASOUKANH (Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Lao People’s Democratic Republic) On behalf of the Government of the Lao People‟s Democratic Republic, I support the Report presented by the Director-General dealing with discrimination. The Lao People‟s Democratic Republic is one of the member States which respects the fundamental principles of the International Labour Organization regarding the promotion of social justice and rights for workers.
In addition, we have paid significant attention to implementing our obligations by ratifying nine international labour Conventions, including the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100), and others which will be studied and ratified in the future. The Constitution and law of the Lao People‟s Democratic Republic contain provisions regarding non-discrimination and the fundamental rights of the Lao population, such as article 35 of the Constitution which states that citizens are equal before the law, irrespective of their gender, social status, education, beliefs and ethnic group.
Article 13 of the Development and Protection Act states that equal rights for women and men means equality in self-development and that they have the same values and opportunities in politics, economics, society, culture and family.
Article 45 of the Labour Code states that employees who perform equal quantity, quality and value of work are entitled to receive equal salary, wages or other benefits without any discrimination as to race, nationality, gender, age, beliefs and socioeconomic status.
Regarding employment and jobs, article 15 of the Development and Protection Act stipulates that the State promotes the right of women to engage in production, business and services in accordance with the law. Women have the right to choose their profession, to choose employment, to be remunerated and to receive other benefits from their work. In order to promote social justice and narrow the wage gap between male and female workers in the Lao People‟s Democratic Republic, the Government considers that the tripartite constituents should identify, monitor and implement activities with regard to minimum wages.
The Government encourages the tripartite constituents to play a key role in drafting laws and regulations. Sharing these responsibilities benefits employers, employees and society.
Allow me to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to the International Labour Organization for its support to the Lao People‟s Democratic Republic in the field of technical and financial endeavours, which contribute to the economic and social development of the country.
Live in hamony with one another. Do not be pound but be willing to assosiate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
Oh! No Mr. Bounkhong, This news was spread all over the medias, including ASTV, RFA. you're the opposition of LaoPDR, you don't need proved from The UN. before you said is true.???
ລາວສວັນ ລູກຫລານພໍ່ກະດວດ
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:57 PM, A. Bounkhong. wrote:
Sabaidee Mr Vang and Mr Somxai,
Our team tried to check this news but we cannot find properly a document to back up as evidence. If we do wrong so our forum will affect in the future to the international eye. The strategy of Lao PDR Government is priority to destroy our forum. Sometimes we sent news directly to Security council or international communities and UN or publish in the media.
Sad news and sorry news to Lao girl and I known very well about the Hunting Hmong ethnic that why our team tried to work in the forum very hard to publish Lao Voice even we receive the lack of supporting in English text. We accept the English is hard for us who have less knowledge if not check properly the meaning go to the wrong direction.
Best Regards, A. Bounkhong
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote:
Our heart and sorrow for our beloved 12 years old and her families. This type of horrible acts have been practiced against Lao-Hmong in the jungle and village in Laos at will. When a government neglect their responsibilities to protect the lives and rights of their citizens, the word" People's Republic" is nothing more than a smoke screen.
To: laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 7:11 am Subject: Re: Lao girl 12 years old was raped by 20 Vietnamese from Hanoi.
Mr. Phom All of your messages looks terrible with red, yellow, blue, look like advertise from MacDonald or Vietnam new year some how, it don't look official or professional. Does any body have comment?
ລາວສວັນ ລູກຫລານພໍ່ກະດວດ
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Phom Soudhasa wrote:
Unacceptable manner of Vietnamese from Hanoi. Phom: The incident happened at Sikhotabong distric , Vientiane so Lao PDR Government should bring the murders to punish. If Lao PDR authority cannot do anything to the murders so Laos country is not a sovereign country. So we will raise this matter to the Amnesty international to justice.
From: Lao Phouan Not only Vietminh take over Laoland but RAPE Lao girl 12 years old; June 26, 2011 in Sikhotabong distric, Vientiane; untill dead and still covered by LPDR official not to tell the media or other source of news because it will be damaging the two Communist countries' friendship. How everybody feel about this LAO stupidity government action?. What is the role of government? protect his Viet friend and kill her citizen.
LPDR thugs see no Evil, hear no EVIL doing from its Master Viets because Lao leaders are castrated by Viet master. If any of its slave
Anything can happen but it's 12yrs old girl or short skirt girl here Lao commie leader complains, he or she may disappear without trace like any other one that seeks justice. Lao commie leaders turn its blind eyes on its own citizens to avoid harsh punishmentfrom its master Viets. May lord Buddha blesses the victim soul, her siblings, and her parents. got raped by those 20 Viet? if the story is true and those Viets rapist go to jail I didn't see how it will damage Lao-Viet relationship.. .http://www.manager.co.th/IndoChina/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9540000084976
Rapists are rapists, has nothing to do with their Nationality. Arseholes are arseholes and they will mention "Viet" to vilify the Vietnamese. Just like when they use the word "commi". People like that don't have my respect and can only sway opinions of "kon smong orn".
Kind Regards, Phom Soudhasa A member of Lao Activist Group. 16 - 07 - 2011
The Lao People's Democratic Republic is an authoritarian one-party state ruled by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). The most recent National Assembly (NA) election was held in 2006. The constitution legitimizes only a single party, the LPRP, and almost all candidates in the 2006 election were LPRP members vetted by the party. Security forces reported to civilian authorities.
The central government continued to deny citizens the right to change their government. Prison conditions were harsh and at times life threatening. Corruption in the police and judiciary persisted. The government infringed on citizens' right to privacy and did not respect the rights to freedom of speech, the press, assembly, or association. Local officials at times restricted religious freedom and freedom of movement. Trafficking in persons remained a problem. Workers' rights were restricted.
RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Section 1 Respect for the Integrity of the Person, Including Freedom From:
a. Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life
There were no reports that the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings. Unlike past years, there were no credible reports of military action against insurgent groups.
There were no developments in the cases of persons allegedly killed by the military or police in previous years.
b. Disappearance
There were no reports of politically motivated disappearances.
c. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
The law prohibits the beating or torture of an arrested person. In practice, members of the police and security forces sometimes abused prisoners.
Detainees occasionally were subjected to beatings and long-term solitary confinement in completely darkened rooms, and in many cases they were detained in leg chains or wooden stocks for long periods. Former inmates reported that degrading treatment, the chaining and manacling of prisoners, and solitary confinement in small unlit rooms were standard punishments in larger prisons, while smaller provincial or district prisons employed manacles and chains to prevent prisoners from escaping.
Prison and Detention Center Conditions
Prison conditions varied widely but in general were harsh and occasionally life threatening. Prisons were overcrowded with poor ventilation, minimal sanitation facilities, inadequate food and potable water, and substandard medical care. Prisoners in larger, state-operated facilities in Vientiane generally fared better than those in provincial prisons. Food rations were minimal, and most prisoners relied on their families for subsistence. Most of the larger facilities allowed prisoners to grow supplemental food in small vegetable gardens, although there were periodic reports that prison guards took food from prisoners' gardens. Prison wardens set prison visitation policies. Consequently, in some facilities families could make frequent visits, but in others visits were severely restricted.
There were credible reports from international organizations that authorities treated ethnic minority prisoners particularly harshly. Former prisoners reported that incommunicado detention was used as an interrogation technique and against perceived problem prisoners; however, there were no reports of its use during the year. Although most prisons had some form of clinic, usually with a doctor or nurse on staff, medical facilities were extremely poor and medical treatment for serious ailments was unavailable. In some facilities prisoners could arrange treatment in outside hospitals if they could pay for the treatment and the expense of police escorts.
People Nationality: Noun and adjective--Lao (sing. and pl.). Population (2011 est., CIA World Factbook): 6.5 million. Annual population growth rate (2009 est.): 2.3%. Ethnic groups: Tai-Kadai language family (6 ethnic groups)--66.2%; Austro-Asiatic (Mon-Khmer and Viet-Muong) language family (30 ethnic groups)--22.8%; Hmong-Yao (2 ethnic groups)--7.4%; Tibeto-Burman (8 ethnic groups)--2.7%; other ethnic groups (including Vietnamese and Chinese)--0.9%. Religions: Buddhism--65%; Christianity--1.3%; others (principally animism, also Baha’i, and Islam)--33.7%. Languages: Lao (official), English, French, and various ethnic languages. Education: Literacy--69%. Health (2009): Infant mortality rate-77.82/1,000. Life expectancy (2009 est., World Bank)--65.4 years. Work force (3.691 million, 2010): Agriculture 75.1%; industry 5.5%; services 19.5%.
Government Type: Communist state. Branches: Executive--President (head of state); Chairman, Council of Ministers (prime minister and head of government); 11-member Politburo; 61-member Central Committee. Legislative--132-seat National Assembly. Judicial--district, regional, and a national Supreme Court. Political parties: Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP)--only legal party. Administrative subdivisions: 16 provinces, and Vientiane prefecture.
Economy GDP (2010 est.): $6.9 billion. Per capita income (2010 est.): $986. GDP growth rate (2010 est.): 8.5%. Natural resources: Hydroelectric power, timber, and minerals. Agriculture (29% of GDP, 2011 est.): Primary products--glutinous rice, coffee, corn, sugarcane, vegetables, tobacco, ginger, water buffalo, pigs, cattle, poultry, sweet potatoes, cotton, tea, and peanuts. Industry (26.5% of GDP, 2011 est.): Primary types--copper, tin, gold, and gypsum mining; timber, electric power, agricultural processing, construction, garments, cement, tourism. Industrial growth rate (2009 est.): 4.8%. Services (2011 est.): 44.5% of GDP. Trade: Exports (2010 est.)--$1.950 billion: gold and copper, electricity, wood and wood products, garments, coffee and other agricultural products, rattan, and tin. Major markets--Thailand, Vietnam, China, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Germany. Imports (2010 est.)--$2.258 billion. Major imports--fuel, food, consumer, goods, machinery and equipment, vehicles and spare parts. Major suppliers--Thailand, Vietnam, China, South Korea, and Belgium.
Our team tried to check this news but we cannot find properly a document to back up as evidence. If we do wrong so our forum will affect in the future to the international eye. The strategy of Lao PDR Government is priority to destroy our forum. Sometimes we sent news directly to Security council or international communities and UN or publish in the media.
Sad news and sorry news to Lao girl and I known very well about the Hunting Hmong ethnic that why our team tried to work in the forum very hard to publish Lao Voice even we receive the lack of supporting in English text. We accept the English is hard for us who have less knowledge if not check properly the meaning go to the wrong direction.
Best Regards,
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote:
Our heart and sorrow for our beloved 12 years old and her families. This type of horrible acts have been practiced against Lao-Hmong in the jungle and village in Laos at will. When a government neglect their responsibilities to protect the lives and rights of their citizens, the word" People's Republic" is nothing more than a smoke screen.
To: laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 7:11 am Subject: Re: Lao girl 12 years old was raped by 20 Vietnamese from Hanoi.
Mr. Phom All of your messages looks terrible with red, yellow, blue, look like advertise from MacDonald or Vietnam new year some how, it don't look official or professional. Does any body have comment?
ລາວສວັນ ລູກຫລານພໍ່ກະດວດ
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Phom Soudhasa wrote:
Unacceptable manner of Vietnamese from Hanoi. Phom: The incident happened at Sikhotabong distric , Vientiane so Lao PDR Government should bring the murders to punish. If Lao PDR authority cannot do anything to the murders so Laos country is not a sovereign country. So we will raise this matter to the Amnesty international to justice.
Not only Vietminh take over Laoland but RAPE Lao girl 12 years old; June 26, 2011 in Sikhotabong distric, Vientiane; untill dead and still covered by LPDR official not to tell the media or other source of news because it will be damaging the two Communist countries' friendship. How everybody feel about this LAO stupidity government action?. What is the role of government? protect his Viet friend and kill her citizen.
LPDR thugs see no Evil, hear no EVIL doing from its Master Viets because Lao leaders are castrated by Viet master. If any of its slave
Anything can happen but it's 12yrs old girl or short skirt girl here Lao commie leader complains, he or she may disappear without trace like any other one that seeks justice. Lao commie leaders turn its blind eyes on its own citizens to avoid harsh punishmentfrom its master Viets. May lord Buddha blesses the victim soul, her siblings, and her parents. got raped by those 20 Viet? if the story is true and those Viets rapist go to jail I didn't see how it will damage Lao-Viet relationship..
Rapists are rapists, has nothing to do with their Nationality. Arseholes are arseholes and they will mention "Viet" to vilify the Vietnamese. Just like when they use the word "commi". People like that don't have my respect and can only sway opinions of "kon smong orn".
Kind Regards, Phom Soudhasa A member of Lao Activist Group. 16 - 07 - 2011
Dear serichon lao around the world I don't know who you are, but in this Democratic stage for all of Lao people, I would like to share my ideas with all friends for our natiion. we know and everybody knows the new situation in Southeast Asia occured in recent month,. starting from the points of Military move between Vietnam and China in South China Sea. And as we compared with the political moves in Laos PDR at this time, the celebration of hegemony of Vietnam in Laos in last week, the starting or making formal military tie between Laos and China, the military friendship between Lao PDR and Russia.. all of these moves shadowed the any crises may happen in Laos in the near future. So if there is any plans which Dockchampa Revolution may take up at this time, I guest it may be the properly time for action. We will join together in any parts of actions. I promise.
เราต้องสู้ต่อไปอย่างไม่มีที่สิ้นสุดจนกว่าไอ้เหี้ยจูมมาลีและระบอบ นรกมันหายไปจากลาว(We will not stop fighting until Tyrant Bac Kha Po6 Choum and their evil system is out of Laos.)ເພື່ອຣູ້ຄວາມຈິງກ່ຽວກັບຣາຊວົງອັບປຣີແລະກະສັດຊັ່ວໆ ຄມນ ລາວແດງ ທີ່ສ້າງເຂດເສຖກິດພີເສດ ເພື່ອຂາຍຄວາມເປັນເອກກະຣາຊ ທາງດ້ານພາສາ ການເງີນ ແລະຄວາມຫັ້ມນຄົງຂອງຊາດ ທຸກໆເສັ້ນທາງມູ້ງໄປທິ່ ນປຊ ອມຣກnorporchorusa.ຄອມ ແລະ ວິທຍຸຈຳປາເມືອງລາວ ທິ່ ປາຣິສradiochampamuonglao.free.fr
With highly to everyone thoughts, ideas, believes, and philosophies. Everyone's believes are highly significant impacts to explore for encouraging manners. Herewith are what I would like to share with the team and group members in this forum:
- If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race - it's up to you...
- I always want to be the best I could be at whatever I did in the past. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be.
- It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
- Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising none's level of aspiration and expectation.
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream to help Lao Norks and Lao Nai... Therefore, the topic you posted in this forum and said: Lao Nork team cannot help Lao Nai is false...?
- You have got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable...
- You don't have to be a fantastic hero or leader to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals...
- Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so...
- The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winner can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them...
- My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset to work for Lao Norks and Lao Nai people...
Remember, our aspirations are our possibilities. Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them...
Make sure we must step forward, we have to learn the rules of the game. And then we have to play the game better than anyone else..
The most important thing about motivation is goal-setting. You should always have the goal-settings to achieve them. So, please do not motivate our compatriots the wrong approaches...
Lastly but not least, don't surrender your individuality which is your greatest agent of power, to the customs and conventionalities that have got their life from the great mass... Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourslef...
Now our soccer team players are beginning and playing in the field and we found many occasions that the Lao PDR are confused themselves to shoot their own goalkeeper, but we are still counting to the point for our goal without our team efforts to try to shoot to be the winner... Again, the winner never quit...though
That's all I can say to this forum..
High respectfully submitted, Dr. William K. BOUAROUY, Author...
As I listen and observe the video clip from Dr. Khampheuy Panmanlaythong is quite interesting in term of request for change and straight to the point. However, saying is one thing an doing it is another thing. I am not quite sure his ideas will go along with the communist party objectives or not. Anyway, at least he see the important of education and its culture that is loosing its grip to foreign intruder such as Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese.
If they (Lao Communist government) are concern and have a vision to lead the people for a better future and have its own independent. Why are they waiting this long to speak up? If and only if the real government has concern for its citizen and want the country to progress in the right direction then they should consider multi-party to run its country. I don't think it would be that simple like East and West Germany that reunification and build its country from both sides. Please look around and take a caution with communist regime..... Last but not least the Lao government do not want to invest in education simple because they don't want its citizens to have any ideas to protest its government..... Just wait and see what really will happen in Laos.... Until then, please doing what is good for yourself, your community, and share your knowledge.... Knowledge is power and with that power you can help betterment of your Lao community.....
I respected each everyone of you highly. I am not taking side of you or other. Kang kouk kiak --laid -- kang kou xack. They are two different political powers. If we want Laos to gain its independent back. We all must work together as an Ocean Realm. Kiak has nothing to do with our nation. Only Laos can give me my Kiak when I got elected or appointed to be... whatever position I am??.. then my status and authority can be implemented under the authority of the Law that permits me to do my job.
At this time please put our Kiaks at home until the ceremony comes to take place first. What he had pointed out, they are trues. We must rely that the future of tomorrow belongs to the children of today. we always looking for something better for our nation and children not for ourselves.
Mr serichon lao
It is great to see you in the the team to fight for democracy of the first start 36 years ago with ancestors 60-70 years old, now their age should be 90-106 years old. How about the second team, 3rd team......till now. Can you show our forum that they are a Lao leader of Lao Nork. Since I came to join the Lao political Organization Abroad in 2007 and I have not seen a leader of Lao Nork to speak up and claimed that He/ She leads all Lao Nork. Please explain as much as you can.
Note: I never said Lao Nork that they were not fighting for democracy in Laos but I should add " They fought each other among the Lao leaders "
Since Lao people have settled in the third world we never heard a Lao leader to do the fighting for democracy but they do to fight for to be a leader of Lao Nork people only therefore the international communities ignored this matter.
I should not leave this space for make the meaning changed.
A Brisbane-based charity says it has smashed a child-trafficking ring that has sent 200 teenage girls from Laos into sex slavery in Thailand.
Two Brisbane business figures started the charity, The Grey Man, which claims more than 400 supporters in Australia and South-East Asia.
The Grey Man says its raids this month, with the help of Thai police, rescued five 15-year-old girls from brothels and karaoke bars.
It is alleged an accused child-trafficker took the girls from their families in 2005 after promising to find them factory work. The girls' families allegedly each received $600 - twice the average annual wage in Thailand. Three alleged ringleaders of the child trafficking ring were arrested this month in northern Laos, The Grey Man says.
Retired chartered accountant Russell Hawksford is one of the two men who front The Grey Man. The other, who only goes by the name "John", is said to be an ex-Special Air Service (SAS) officer.
"John . . . became an anthropologist," Mr Hawksford said. "He works in Brisbane when he is not in Laos."
The Grey Man also runs projects to provide solar energy, community centres or school equipment.
Rotary backs some projects. But the main game was running covert operations to rescue child prostitutes, Mr Hawksford said.
The last raids had been the most successful since the group formed in 2004.
"We find that [the girls] are trafficked for either their labour or for the sex trade," he said. "We find that in the south [of Laos] . . . a lot of them are trafficked into Thailand for factories. But the ones we rescued [this month] were definitely for the sex trade. The intelligence we have is that the gang has been running roughly 200 girls a year."
Mr Hawksford said The Grey Man's work barely scraped the surface towards eradicating child prostitution. "It is the tip of the iceberg, but it is still five lives," he said. "Once they are trafficked, they are beaten and raped. And if the resist they are beaten and raped and many of them end up with AIDS."
Intelligence about the latest child-trafficking ring had come from a non-government agency working in northern Laos, he said.
"They would prefer to give the intelligence to us and then we would work out the best way of handling the operation," he said.
"We don't break the law, we don't do operations that might become an international incident and we obviously engage the police.
"In this case, the provincial police engaged the Bangkok special squad and we worked out the logistics of doing it."
He said the arrests, near Chiang Khong, had taken place on the Mekong River, with Thai police leading the operation. Police now had information that could lead to seven more arrests.
Mr Hawksford said there was no evidence of children trafficked to Australia, but there had been a few cases of Asian women smuggled into brothels.
No one knows how many women and children are affected, but estimates for the East Asia region alone are between 250,000 and 400,000 a year.
Why splitting up Thailand wouldn't work Published on July 15, 2011
Re: How about a two-state solution for Thailand? Letters, July 14.
Horst Bullinger says Thailand should be divided into two nations:
the North and Northeast on one side (for Thaksin Shinawatra to rule); the North and Northeast on one side (for Thaksin Shinawatra to rule); the North and Northeast on one side (for Thaksin Shinawatra to rule); the North and Northeast on one side (for Thaksin Shinawatra to rule);
and the rest as a second country. I don't think Mr Bullinger knows enough of Thailand's geopolitics to suggest that.
Bangkok is a seaport city. It has been a major source of income for Thailand for more than 300 years. It is said that about three-fourths of tax money in Thailand comes from Bangkok and the surrounding provinces.
The North and Northeast are a landlocked country. If separated from Bangkok, the new country will be reduced in terms of economic development on the same line with Laos and Cambodia. More importantly, it will be the most populous country with the least source of income to feed itself, let alone prosper.
NEWS - Resources and Energy Comment Rains hit PanAust Laos mine
Published 7:23 PM, 5 Jul 2011 Last update 7:23 PM, 5 Jul 2011
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AAP
A contractor working for miner PanAust Ltd in Laos was likely killed in a rain-triggered landslide, the company said.
PanAust on Tuesday said an excavator operator who was working on road clearance activities off-site from the company's Phu Kham mine had been swept away in a landslide.
The company said more than one metre of rain had fallen on the mine in the past month - more than double the average.
It said normal weather had returned and that four days of concentrate production had been lost at the mine as a result of suspended operations.
Scheduled shipments of copper and gold should be unaffected, PanAust said.
PanAust shares finished seven cents weaker at $3.90.
ทักษิณ เองไม่เคยพูดถึงไอเดียเรื่องการตั้งรัฐบาลพลัดถิ่นเมื่อเกิดรัฐประหารหรือ เรื่องผลกระทบของการเข้าเฝ้าของคณะรัฐประหาร แต่ในการให้สัมภาษณ์นิตยสาร Time ของสหรัฐ ในเดือนกุมภาพันธ์ 2550 (ที่นี่ http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1584101,00.html ) เมื่อถูกถามว่าถ้ารัฐบาลของเขาเป็นที่นิยมของประชาชนมาก ทำไมแทบไม่มีประชาชนออกมาโวยวายประท้วงเมื่อเกิดรัฐประหารขึ้น ซึ่งทักษิณตอบว่า “มันก็เหมือนกับการรัฐประหาร 17 ครั้งก่อนหน้านี้ในประเทศไทย แรกทีเดียว ประชาชนจะช้อค แล้วพวกเขาก็เริ่มแสดงความไม่เห็นด้วย และแล้วพวกเขาก็เริ่มจะยอมรับมัน โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งหลังจากรัฐประหารนั้นได้รับการรับรองจากพระเจ้าอยู่หัว” (It was the same with Thailand’s 17 other coups. First, the people are shocked. Then they start to voice their concerns. And then they start to accpet it, especially after it’s endorsed by His Majesty the King.) ผมคิดว่า เราคงยังไม่ถึงกับสามารถใช้คำสัมภาษณ์นี้เป็นหลักฐานยืนยันโดยตรง ต่อรายงานของทูตสหรัฐที่ว่าทักษิณเปลี่ยนท่าทีต่อการรัฐประหาร 19 กันยา หลังการได้เข้าเฝ้าของคณะรัฐประหาร แม้ว่าการที่ทักษิณให้ความสำคัญกับประเด็น “ได้รับการรับรองจากพระพระเจ้าอยู่หัว” และยกเรื่องนี้ขึ้นมาเป็นเหตุผลอธิบายปฏิกิริยาต่อรัฐประหารของประชาชนทั่ว ไป นับว่าน่าสนใจอย่างยิ่ง