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AmeriLao Freedom of Speech Radio - 4 Broadcasting from TN,  USA.

We broadcast Laos Oversea News, Laos Morlum, Esan music, Cambodian, Chinese, Vietnamese, American, Thai and International Music for 24/7. It opens to public for all.

DJ:  UNKNOWN.

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AmeriLao Freedom of Speech Radio - 6 Broadcasting from Washington, DC USA.

We broadcast Laos Oversea News, Laos Morlum, Esan music, Cambodian, Chinese, Vietnamese, American, Thai and International Music for 24/7. It opens to public for all.

DJ: Peter

E-mail: [email protected]

AmeriLao Freedom of Speech Radio - 8 Broadcasting from Salt Lake, UT  USA.

We broadcast Laos Oversea News, Laos Morlum, Esan music, Cambodian, Chinese, Vietnamese, American, Thai and International Music for 24/7. It opens to public for all.

DJ:  Billy Moukda.

Email: [email protected]

WASHINGTON — The United States moved to restore full diplomatic relations with Myanmar on Friday, rewarding the sweeping political and economic changes that the country’s new civilian government has made, including a cease-fire with ethnic rebels and, only hours before, the release of hundreds of political prisoners.

BANGKOK — Opium cultivation has surged in Myanmar and Laos as high prices attract impoverished farmers to grow the illicit crop, particularly in conflict areas, according to a UN report published Thursday.

The study by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), using helicopter, satellite and village surveys, saw a 16 percent increase in the amount of Southeast Asian land sown with poppies in 2011 since just last year.

Petition to release all prisoners of conscience in Vietnam

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CONSIDERING

1. The world superpowers are currently engaged in a relationship of competitive cooperation.

2. Dizzying events in North Africa and the Middle East have affirmed that democratization is the unavoidable trend against dictatorial regimes.

You are cordially invited to join the important conference, organized by the Studies and Researches Center on Laos and Asia, partnering with the Union for Lao Nation.

When: October 29, 2011

Time: 9:00 am – 6:00pm

Where: Richard Byrd Library, 7250 Commerce Street, Springfield, VA 22150

BANGKOK — The threat has loomed large over this giant metropolis for weeks: Floodwaters could rapidly swamp glitzy downtown Bangkok, ruining treasured ancient palaces and chic boutiques on skyscraper-lined avenues in the heart of the Thai economy.

The floods haven't come, but the sense of imminent doom is growing by the day, seeping in through worried conversations, school closings and emptied store shelves. One measure of the fear: the protective walls of sandbags scattered across the city's canals, homes and shop-fronts are expanding in number and height daily.

Dear friends,

On behalf of The Laotian New Generation Democracy Movement (LGDM), we respectfully invite you to ThaiLao Human Rights Conference, to speak out for and help the unfortunate people that are being suppressed and therefore cannot speak out for themselves.

Topics:

1. A group of students were arrested on Oct. 26th, 1999 for staging a peaceful protest in the capital of Vientiane, Laos. To this day, they still remain kept incommunicado.

2. A group of Lao Human Rights Activists got arrested on November 2nd, 2009

Human rights activists are reporting an increased incidence of rape against Kachin women in areas of recent military attacks by government forces in northern Myanmar.

In Kachin State alone, at least 18 cases of rape - sometimes aggravated with murder - were documented over an eight-day period in June by the Kachin Women’s Association of Thailand (KWAT), following renewed fighting between government and Kachin forces. In September to date, the number of reported rapes has risen to 37 in areas where government troops are active.

The site chosen for mega project in Laos is on the course of the River Mekong and only about 100km from a fault line. The project has brought protests from conservation groups and representatives from Cambodia and Vietnam, because it could threaten the ecological balance in the area. Senior Laotian officials: work will start "before the end of this year ”.