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  • Exclusive Interview with Frank Belfrage 13 May 2008 11:56 GMT
    ... a continued inclusive approach by the Iraqi government in order for us to see a ... that there is real progress in Iraq; politically in terms of reconciliation, economically in terms ... when people would come [to Sweden] from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. We have had refugees from ...

  • Cambodian dam plans suffer drought 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... by Chinese investors which will simultaneously fill government coffers and have severe social and environmental ... environmental impacts on local communities. Like neighboring Laos in the 1990s, foreign donors, electricity-hungry neighboring nations ... potential were put on hold due to political instability and the economic chaos that followed ...

  • The politics of cluster bombs 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... By Brian McCartan XIENG KHUANG, Laos - Nang Wan lies in a hospital bed in ... million cluster bomb sub-munitions. According to the government-run unexploded ordnance (UXO) disposal organization UXO-Lao, 4,837 ... kilometers affected. Yong Chanthalangsy, spokesperson for the ministry of foreign affairs in Laos, said, "With ...

  • Fear of foreigners in Laos 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... By Bertil Lintner LUANG PRABANG, Laos - It is has been one year since Sompawn ... even listed as one of the Lao government's five main development priorities, along with hydroelectric ... Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the country’s only political party. While Sompawn's local business was not ...

  • Tibet, the 'great game' and the CIA 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... to run similar operations in Vietnam and Laos. By the mid-1960s, the CIA had switched its ... closed down in 1974 by the Nepalese government after being put under tremendous pressure by ... positions in Lhasa are Zhang Xinfeng, vice minister of the Central Public Security Ministry and ...

  • HMONG LAO UPDATE: 21 Hmong Lao Refugee Children Found Alive; Laos Refuses to Return Them to Their Parents 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... 21 Hmong Lao Refugee Children Found Alive; Laos Refuses to Return Them to Their Parents ... News Network Less than a month ago Laotian Deputy Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith -- in ... had fled from Laos to Thailand seeking political asylum, claiming severe human rights violations from ...

  • Global hunt for Tigers' assets 13 May 2008 10:34 GMT
    ... in India, Botswana, Myanmar, Cambodia, Denmark, Germany, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Qatar, South Africa, Switzerland and Thailand, ... on April 7 reported that the LTTE's political wing had established its branches in at ... US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report, the government of Eritrea is providing direct military assistance ...

  • Basra: Echoes of Vietnam 13 May 2008 10:33 GMT
    ... a complex mixture of tactics, technology and politics. Then there are the intangibles, such as ... Operation Lam Son, the 1971 invasion of Laos by the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN). The United ... of the fighting is that "the Bush administration's triumphalism over the so-called Iraqi 'surge' strategy ...

  • Group provides translated forms for voters 13 May 2008 09:30 GMT
    ... Translations of Iowa voter registration forms will be ... people who are legally participating in our government," said Lori Chesser, president of ICIU. The ... English-language law by offering forms in Spanish, Laotian, Bosnian and Vietnamese. The ruling came in ...

  • Asian, Pacific Americans to kick out annual heritage month 13 May 2008 08:53 GMT
    ... China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Laos. With several months to go before the November presidential elections, Asian and Pacific Americans, as the third ... and panels on their role in the political affairs. Source: Xinhua ...

  • U.S. planeload aid supplies arrive in Yangon for cyclone victims 13 May 2008 06:15 GMT
    ... made an offer to Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister U Kyaw Htu last Friday for the ... supplies, a U.S. diplomat said. The Myanmar government has stressed that aid from any nation ... China, Singapore, India, Russia, Italy, Bangladesh, Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Ukraine, Greece and Pakistan and regions like ...

  • Global Poultry Industry is the Root of the Bird Flu Crisis 13 May 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... While panic in the media and at government levels is focused on the threat from ... small scale chicken flocks. H5N1 outbreaks in Laos, which is surrounded by infected countries, have only ... single factory farm, owned by a Cabinet minister, distant from hotspots for migratory birds but ...

  • China's Strategy of Containing India 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... it has the potential to alter Asian geopolitics radically. Long-time observers of India-China relations, however, maintain ... within less than 24 hours, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was forced -- mainly by ... early 2005, Beijing dispatched its diplomats to Laos (then "country convener for India" within the A.S.E.A.N. ...

  • Asia's Coming Water Wars 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... off water supplies for 60,000 people in government-controlled areas. This led the Sri Lankan military ... by the six riparian states (Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) to construct dams in ... and Nepal but also enflamed internal Nepalese politics as the Nepali Congress and United Marxist ...

  • Karamanlis receives Cypriot House leader 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... the 'Hour of the Prime Minister' in parliament, Karamanlis stressed that banks are obliged to ... leader George Papandreou and Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) leader George Karatzaferis on over-indebtedness of households due ... of the Prime Minister', and stressed his government's determination to "ensure protection of consumers" and ...

  • ASEAN to form Asian Union? 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... a "historic moment" as presidents and prime ministers sign their "landmark" charter - a "bold ... Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Brunei.) If you believe the ... and security cooperation will not get anywhere." Politically, the region's leaders also seem torn between ...

  • China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... allies, which uphold the practice of torture, political assassinations and the establishment of secret detention ... in India associated with the Dalai Lama's government in exile "hinted they were indeed expecting ... to run similar operations in Vietnam and Laos. By the mid-1960s, the CIA had switched its ...

  • Is Lay Presidency necessary? (full) 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... – or if you prefer, who may administer the Lord’s Supper. I would like to ... of lay persons but of elders, exercising political and pastoral power along with ministries of word ... ministry of the whole community, the whole laos or people of God, saying “When you come ...

  • A day of memory, pride 13 May 2008 04:48 GMT
    ... naturalization ceremony at the Dole Institute of Politics at Kansas University. "I definitely believe in ... representative at Price Chopper, is originally from Laos. "We thought it was a very fitting way ...

  • Singapore: Another Hong Kong? 13 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... parliamentary republic with a directly elected unicameral parliament. As a legacy of its association with ... In 2005, GDP growth was 6.4%. The government, led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong ... 10-nation group, which includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Japan ...

  • Myanmar's Leaders 13 May 2008 00:56 GMT
    ... days into this, the Myanmar or Burmese government is still so adamantly refusing to let ... regime denied the outcome of the 1990 election, it was the second evidence that the ... Burma is lower than even Cambodia and Laos. MARGARET WARNER: OK, can you hold that... TUN ...

  • Myanmar's Military Rulers Hold Tight to Power Amid Cyclone Crisis 13 May 2008 00:56 GMT
    ... days into this, the Myanmar or Burmese government is still so adamantly refusing to let ... regime denied the outcome of the 1990 election, it was the second evidence that the ... Burma is lower than even Cambodia and Laos. MARGARET WARNER: OK, can you hold that... TUN ...

  • Thailand Drops Plan for Rice Cartel that Would Have Fixed Prices 12 May 2008 23:51 GMT
    ... about setting up a rice cartel," Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said after a meeting with ... the region and beyond. He said his government will pursue discussion about forming such an ... this year. The five countries — Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar — have formed a ...

  • Rudd's grand ambition 12 May 2008 23:07 GMT
    ... its “dirty illegal war” in Cambodia and Laos. Is this another repeat performance? Which ever way ... of ashamed of their country and their government. Rudd is right. The EU is now ... The US, crippled by debt and grotesque political mismanagement, is about to hit by an ...

  • US, Institut Pasteur team up for flu virus surveillance 12 May 2008 22:30 GMT
    ... 21, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – The US government recently agreed to collaborate with France's Institut ... collaboration was signed Feb 6 by HHS Deputy Secretary Alex M. Azar and IP President ... and surveillance efforts in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Stewart Simonson, assistant secretary for public health emergency ...


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