The country only has 300 wild elephants left, squashed into a patchwork of ever-smaller spaces. A wildlife park, and programs to help villagers view them more kindly, may help stave off extinction. The love between man and elephant does not come easily.
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China's elephants jostle for a little room (Los Angeles Times)
Posted by admin 3 hours ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)Editorial: Hmong seek fair treatment from U.S., Laos (The Sacramento Bee)
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More than two months have passed since Thailand forcibly returned 4,500 Hmong refugees who had fled from Laos. For Hmong in Sacramento and elsewhere in the United States who have family there, the plight of these refugees has been excruciating, and frustrating.
Thirty-eight years after her husband's plane was shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War, an Azle widow can lay him to rest.
LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 13/3 (Vietnam Net)
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A musical performance programme was held in Vientiane on March 12 to encourage people in Laos to vote for Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay as one of the seven new natural wonders of the world.
Chinese vice PM to visit five countries (People's Daily)
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Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu will pay an official visit to five countries including Cambodia, Laos, Palestine, Israel and India, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced Friday. Hui's visit is from March 17 to 28, at the invitation of Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Office of the Council of Ministers Sok An, Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad ...
Burmese refugees face starvation in Bangladesh (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
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WASHINGTON _Thousands of Burmese Muslim refugees at an unofficial refugee camp in Bangladesh are facing starvation and acute malnutrition as the government continues to block international humanitarian aid, according to Physicians for Human Rights, a humanitarian watchdog group.
Thieves loot Lao city's Buddha statue heritage (Sydney Morning Herald)
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LUANG PRABANG: More than a 10th of the Buddha statues in Luang Prabang, an ancient city in north-central Laos whose urban district is a World Heritage Site, have gone missing in the past few years.
China asked to supply data about hydro-power dam on Mekong River (Vietnam Net)
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VietNamNet Bridge – Le Duc Trung, Chair of the Vietnam Mekong River National Committee, on March 11 confirmed that Vietnam was invited to visit China’s Jinghong Dam with representatives from Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
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