Vientiane, Laos.

Indeed, Laos was among the worst affected countries.

It became the capital of the French protectorate of Laos in 1899.

By the end of 1946, at least 500 Viet Minh agents had crossed into Laos.

Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are in the queue for WTO accession.

Laos is a developing nation in Southeast Asia with a majority rural population.

Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, all very poor, have higher levels of protection.

Laos should strive to distinguish itself in the region by adopting a human rights based framework in regulating the Internet.

In 2009 he joined the marathon competition in the Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane, Laos.

Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, for example, were among the most heavily bombed countries in the world over the past century.

In October, 1945, a Lao nationalist movement called Lao Issara (Free Laos) was founded as a new government for Laos.

Antoine Lavenant, with his girlfriend spent a year in Asia China, Laos, Cambodia, Thaïland, Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka.

This summer and fall, I revisited many of the affected countries, including Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Ancient Greek had two words for the people the demos of democracy and the laos of the mob.

1947 52 Build up of forces On 11 May 1947, King Sisavang Vong granted a constitution declaring Laos an independent nation within the French Union.

In this respect, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) constitutes an edifying example.

Photo from Facebook page of Elephant Conservation CenterLaos was once called the land of a million elephants but today elephant population has been reduced to several hundreds because of poaching and illegal ivory trade.

But Iran has resources that Cambodia and Laos could never muster indeed, its ability to retaliate could set the entire region ablaze.

Nearly a third of the cluster bombs dropped by the United States in Laos between 1964 and 1973 failed to detonate and are still scattered across the country.

In 1 August 1954 the French army withdrew from Laos declaring independence for the nation alongside North Vietnam, South Vietnam and Cambodia which ended the First Indochina War but the Laotian Civil War was still ongoing.

With his puerile call to shift the burden of his own errors and his reluctance to reform onto the shoulders of Greece s fellow Europeans, Tsipras is leaning toward the latter manifestation and promoting the worst version of Greek politics.

Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand, which lack Singapore's resources, are likely to suffer deprivation, fragmentation, and unrest, to say nothing of countries such as Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar.

As of this year, Ghana, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe have all taken steps to introduce HPV vaccines, with more countries expected to follow.

Vietnam differed from Korea and Malaya, where containment and counterinsurgency prevailed, because the communists could outflank allied forces in South Vietnam by using neutral territory in Cambodia and Laos. Like the PLO presence in Lebanon until 1982, this strategy plunged hapless host countries into civil war and provoked invasions by stronger powers, in turn spurring more extremist movements the Khmer Rouge, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad.

Throughout the Vietnam War, and for two decades following it, the U.S. government stated that there was no Secret War in Laos and that the U.S. was not engaged in air or ground combat operations in Laos.

Of course, should the US see failure ahead, it could seek to broaden the war beyond Iraq s borders by attacking Iran, a policy reminiscent of Operation Sideshow, when US failure in Vietnam in the late 1960 s enticed President Nixon into attacking Cambodia and Laos.