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Ex-Hmong leader deported to Laos
Associated Press, Published on 02/07/2014
» Thailand deported a former ethnic Hmong resistance leader whose group fought for the United States in Laos in the 1960s, officials and rights groups said Wednesday, raising concerns that he will face persecution in his homeland.
Laos extradites drug ring suspects
Associated Press, Published on 11/06/2014
» BEIJING — Lao police are sending five suspected members of a drug ring to China in an exchange highlighting growing law enforcement cooperation between the neighbours.
Cambodian workers die in road crash
Associated Press, Published on 25/04/2014
» Seven Cambodian migrant workers were killed when the pickup truck they were travelling in crashed into a tree in Chon Buri province early Friday, police said.
Passenger with stolen passport on MH370 an asylum seeker
Associated Press, Published on 11/03/2014
» KUALA LUMPUR - A man travelling with a stolen passport on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner was an Iranian teenager trying to migrate illegally to Germany, and is not believed to have any terrorist links, police said Tuesday.
5 sentenced to death for drug trafficking
Associated Press, Published on 14/12/2013
» HANOI - A court in central Vietnam has sentenced five people, including four women, to death and another to life in prison for trafficking heroin from neighbouring Laos.
Photo shows animal unseen since '98
Associated Press, Published on 13/11/2013
» HANOI - A camera trap in a forest in central Vietnam has managed to snap a photo of one of Earth's rarest mammals, the saola, which had not been seen in 15 years.
Drug-resistant malaria spreads in SEA
Associated Press, Published on 13/11/2013
» WASHINGTON - International experts raised the alarm Tuesday over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, saying it endangers major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 600,000 people annually.
Cambodia floods claims 30 lives
Associated Press, Published on 30/09/2013
» PHNOM PENH - At least 30 people in Cambodia have died in recent floods caused by heavy rains and the Mekong River overflowing its banks.
Vietnam war bombs still claim victims
Associated Press, Published on 14/08/2013
» HANOI - Nguyen Xuan Thiet knew the copper band around the base of the American bomb left over from the Vietnam War could fetch him up to a dollar at the scrap yard. So he clasped the projectile between his bare feet, and began banging with a chisel to pry out the precious metal.
UN protests return of NKoreans
Associated Press, Published on 01/06/2013
» UNITED NATIONS - The UN Human Rights Commissioner has criticised Laos and China for returning nine young defectors - all reportedly orphans - to North Korea, where they could face harsh treatment.