News Laos Hua Phan: Vieng Xai travel guide
Meat dishes are pricier at 35,000 kip. There are also Lao dishes on the menu like basic noodle soup, which one diner described to us as so-so. Stick with the Indian food. Open Mon-Sun, 07:00-21:00. ...
News Laos Hua Phan: Sam Neua travel guide
Bordering Vietnam in northeastern Laos, Hua Phan province was the military headquarters of the communist Pathet Lao during the revolutionary fight for independence. As the heart of the resistance, ...
News Laos Hua Phan: Bank builds home for silk weavers in Laos
Her story began in 1976, when she gathered 10 internally displaced poor women weavers from her home in Hua Phan province to fund the Phontong Handicraft Cooperative before setting up Lao Sericulture ...
News Laos Hua Phan: Three Laotians arrested for drugs smuggling
Her Lek, 23, and Kaoher Yalyvone, 30, both from Laos' Hua Phan Province, and Her Leege, 46, from Vientaine, had hidden the 7.9 kilograms of heroin in a car carrying a Laotian number plate. This was ...
News Laos Hua Phan: Asia: Inside the caves of Laos where wartime bombs fell, a revolution was hatched and a community survived
... caves in Northeastern Lao where the Pathet Lao plotted their revolution. In the Hua Phan Province they lived in 800 limestone caves for nine years, from 1964 to 1973. They were the Laotian ...
News Laos Hua Phan: Is Laos’ New Leader Really a Reformer?
Born in the province of Hua Phan in November 1945, and educated in the Soviet Union, his consanguineous political ties are owed to his father-in-law, Phoumi Vongvichit, a founding member of the Lao ...
News Laos Hua Phan: Remains of soldiers who died in Laos reinterred
The remains were found during the period from November 2010 to April 2011 by a search team from the Thanh Hoa Military Command in Hua Phan province, Laos.
News Laos Hua Phan: Laos Travel Blueprint: 4 trips through a vibrant Asian nation
Isolated after the Communist takeover in 1975, Laos suddenly finds itself a hot destination for ... Loop back to pick up the highway east across the spine of the Annamite Mountains into remote Hua ...
News Laos Hua Phan: Vietnamese, Lao provinces to offer joint tours
The day can be rounded off with Thai folk music and dance performances. Vieng Xai District of Hua Phan Province boasts nearly 500 caves, including the one named after Laos' former President Kaysone ...
