Law continues to treat women as objects
Source: The Jakarta Post
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-26 23:42:40 -0700 | political-news
Rocky Gerung, a philosophy lecturer at University of Indonesia, cited the plan by Lhokseumawe administration in Aceh to ban women from straddling motorcycles as an example of legislation that did not side with women. According to the National Commission on...
Health Care Worker Visits Increase Screening for Hepatitis B among Hmong Americans
Source: Newswise
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-23 11:05:34 -0700 | health-news
EDT Embargo expired: 4/23/2013 1:00 PM EDT Source Newsroom: Newswise In the first study of its kind, lay health workers were effective in increasing screening rates for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and enhancing knowledge about the disease among a group...
The Week: A Bear's Brain Surgery, Babies' Consciousness and More
Source: The New York Times
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-22 16:38:29 -0700 | health-news
Chris Hadfield wrung out a wet washcloth while aboard the International Space Station for an experiment designed by two 10th graders in Nova Scotia. Matt Hunt In Laos, an Asiatic black bear with hydrocephalus water on the brain became the...
Tribeca Film Review: ‘The Rocket'
Source: Variety
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-21 12:21:19 -0700 | entertainment-news
The adventures of a 10-year-old Laotian boy are subject to radically different interpretations in The Rocket, Australian documentarian Kim Mordaunt's impressive narrative debut. In a country where multinational interests are reshaping the landscape to suit their corporate needs, displaced...
Eating Along the 4 Line: Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall
Source: NY Daily News
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-20 23:34:17 -0700 | entertainment-news
Stories Decades ago, the blocks around the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall subway stop were not particularly kind to lunch-breaking foodies...Between Chinatown, Tribeca and all the new food stalls, there is plenty of excitement, including these three shops that are cooking from...
JOHN GOTTCENT: Remember when
Source: Courier & Press
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-20 22:15:23 -0700 | political-news
Big Story The big story 50 years ago this week (1963) involved concerns about Southeast Asia...Kennedy pondered American military and diplomatic action to prevent Laos from being gobbled up by the communists. Diplomatic steps ranged from appeals to Nikita Khrushchev...
Joint anti-drug campaign on Mekong River begins
Source: China News
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-18 22:51:54 -0700 | political-news
The nameplate of the headquarters for a joint anti-drug campaign by China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand on the Mekong River was unveiled in Xishuangbanna on Friday. This marked the formal start of the two-month-long action designed for safety of the Mekong, a...
IFEX This Week
Source: Scoop
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-18 19:04:01 -0700 | political-news
Prime Minister John Key has paid tribute to former British Prime Minister Lady Margaret Thatcher, who has passed away aged 87...My thoughts are with them, and the people of Britain, at this time. Lao and Hmong non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are...
Laos: Opposition to US Funding of Bomb Clearing From Vietnam
Source: Scoop
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-14 18:28:47 -0700 | political-news
Lao and Hmong non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are opposing a controversial multi-million dollar U.S. State Department program to remove unexploded Vietnam-era ordinance and bombs from Laos. In opposition to the program, which the State Department is promoting with a current national...
Author probes a CIA agent's death
Source: The Fresno Bee
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-13 13:15:32 -0700 | entertainment-news
00 PM Text Size: tool goes here Gayle L. Morrison takes a few moments to do some proofreading before she spends the afternoon with her adopted Hmong family. It's a chance to mix pleasure with business after spending three days...
This is the first bear to ever have brain surgery
Source: io9
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-12 15:33:54 -0700 | technology-news
A three-year-old Asiatic Black bear named Champa has just undergone successful surgery to remove a buildup of water in her brain. It marks the first time in medical history that a bear has been given such a procedure. Champa has...
Legacies of War shows dangers left in Laos
Source: Merced Sun Star
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-10 23:55:46 -0700 | travel-news
Adam Thongsavat, tour director for the program and Merced High School graduate, said he was happy to be able to bring the program to his hometown. "I was doing an outreach trip, trying to garner support, and what we found...
Robert Perl: The East Village's Counterculture Landlord
Source: The New York Observer
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-10 12:57:19 -0700 | political-news
Robert Perl bought his first East Village building, 273 East Third Street, in 1988, the year the Tompkins Square Park riots erupted over the imposition of a curfew on the neighborhood focal point, then a veritable tent city. Mr. Perl,...
BAY plans consumer-finance JVs in neighbouring countries
Source: The Nation
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-10 12:08:11 -0700 | business-news
The bank will form a joint venture in Laos to operate consumer-finance business including auto loans. Details of the JV will be announced in the second quarter, said BAY chief executive officer Janice Van Ekeren...The new JV will operate separately,...
China to spend 1 b yuan to preserve riverhead
Source: China News
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-04-10 07:05:31 -0700 | green-news
The government will spend 1 billion yuan (about $161.5 million) in 2013 to protect Sanjiangyuan, a region that serves as the source of China's three biggest rivers. The money will be spent on afforestation, wetland protection and the recovery of...
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