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 1999 Narcotics Report on the Asia-Pacific Region
-- U.S.
Department of State Lao Garments Export Up -- Xinhua
News Agency LAO STATE BANK GOVERNOR IN HA NOI TO REVIEW BILATERAL COOPERATION --
Vietnam
News Agency Thai Jewelry Fair Opens to Promote Export -- Xinhua
News Agency Asean Officials to Meet in Manila to Draft E Agreement -- Asia
Pulse/Yahoo! Asia Drug Problem Nations To Be Graded -- Associated
Press Hmong man's rape conviction overturned -- Star
Tribune Ventura meets with state delegation on Hill to discuss plans for
Minnesota-- Star
Tribune FYI: Minneapolis sets up site to get information on sex offenders
-- Star
Tribune Judges tough on alien criminals -- Denver Post |
| Lao Deputy PM to Visit Myanmar -- Xinhua
News Agency Australian Firm To Install Microwave Telecom Sys In Laos -- Dow
Jones/Yahoo! Asia Vietnam, Laos Boost Cooperation in Monetary, Banking Fields --
Xinhua
News Agency VIETNAMESE, LAO STATE BANKS SIGN COOPERATION ACCORD-- Vietnam
News Agency Hmong keeping new faith -- Sacramento Bee
By Request: Student misses Thai favorites --
Honolulu Star-Bulletin >>>
picture21 criminal aliens wait in Aurora -- Inside Denver
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| Southeast Asia should abandon non-interference
policy: Ramos -- Southeast Asian nations should change their policy of
non-interference in other member countries where internal political problems have regional
implications, former AFP/Yahoo! Asia WEAVE to direct message on violence to immigrants -- As a
result, the nonprofit Sacramento agency announced Thursday that it will expand its efforts
to educate immigrants from such nations as Russia, Laos and other parts ofSacramento Bee |
| Race for two Asean posts -- VIETNAM and
Laos have nominated two senior officials to compete for two posts at the Jakarta-based
Asean secretariat, a diplomatic source said yesterday. The Nation IN BRIEF: Tariffs cut on commodities, products from Laos --
THAILAND has cut import tariffs on seven commodity and industrial products imported from
Laos, the Custom Department said yesterday. The Nation VIET NAM, LAOS SIGN HEALTH CARE COOPERATION AGREEMENT--
Signatories were Health Minister of Viet Nam Do Nguyen Phuong and his Lao counterpart
Ponmeck Dalaloy, who heads a delegation of the Lao HealthVietnam News Agency VIETNAMESE AND LAO BANKS SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT--
Vietnam News
Agency Rapist arrested in Thailand returned to Minnesota prison --
Star
Tribune |
| Myanmar to host ASEAN economic ministers --
Reuters/ABC News
Singapore Min: China's Entry In WTO Could Hurt ASEAN -- Dow
Jones/Yahoo! Asia The Pioneer Press Book Club this week is reading "I Begin My
Life All Over: The Hmong and the American . . . Pioneer Planet
or Pioneer
Planet Meeting with a higher purpose: Fresno Bee
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| Tariffs reduced on imports from Laos -- Bangkok Post 4 Mekong Countries Draft Navigation Agreement -- Senior officials of
the four countries of the upper Mekong River -- China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand -- are
meeting here to draft an agreement on commercial navigation on the Xinhua News Agency Four countries to sign Mekong River agreement -- Kyodo News Indonesia to Initiate ASEAN Human Rights Forum -- Indonesia will
initiate a plan to establish the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) human
rights regional forum, a senior official said here Monday. Xinhua News Agency AIDS Outbreaks Follow Asia's Heroin Traffic -- Washington
Post Metro Detroit Hmong struggle to adjust to U.S. -- Detroit News w/ picturePulling Up Roots: Pioneer Planet |
| Laos Deputy PM In Myanmar On Official Visit
-- Dow
Jones/Yahoo! Asia VIET NAM HELPS TRAIN LAO MUSEUM WORKERS -- Vietnam News
Agency Speculation swirls over whose bones were found -- Pioneer
Planet or Pioneer
Planet Immigrant teens work to make ends meet -- Star
Tribune Leonard Inskip: Restorative Justice Summit shows why concept is on
rise -- Star
Tribune |
| Mekong river body, ADB sign partnership -- Reuters/ABC News
Four-Mekong-Country Meeting Ends in Myanmar: The two-day
quadripartite meeting of the working group of four countries of the upper Mekong River
-- Xinhua
News Agency Draft agreement signed on commercial navigation of Mekong -- Australian
Broadcasting Corp. Thai Cabinet Approves Mekong Navigation Pact -- Xinhua
News Agency Cabinet agrees to Mekong pact -- The Nation OIL PRICES: Low costs no comfort to firms -- Bangkok Post Doug Grow: Henry High gets spotlight at the right time -- Star
Tribune |
| Egat will buy more power from Laos -- Bangkok Post Thailand is firm on power price -- The Nation Four Mekong nations sign navigation agreement - Australian
Broadcasting Corp. Panel OKs increase foreign high-tech workers- Inside
Denver |
| Haunting highway: Naples Daily News Haunting highway: If you go ...to Laos -- Naples Daily News Tools sought to fight transnational gangs --
Bangkok Post
Asean may opt for European 'troika' -- The Nation Malaysian-Indonesian Businessmen Urged to Strengthen Ties --
Asia
Pulse/Yahoo! Asia |
| VIET NAM, LAOS COOPERATE IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT-- Vietnam News
Agency Sport:
Charting Games direction -- New
Straits Times/Yahoo! Asia First suspect charged in gang rape pleads guilty:
Pioneer
Planet |
| ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM: Bangkok Post Healing
Together: Pioneer Planet |
| ADB Loan to Help Bolster Rural Financial Sector in
Laos -- Asian Development Bank
or Asia
Pulse/Yahoo! Asia Lao Party Holds 10th Plenum to Review Socio-Economic Situation --
Xinhua
News Agency Malaysian Ports Well Placed for Opportunities in
Indochina:PM-- Asia
Pulse/Yahoo! Asia Man, girl to testify in gang-rape case -- Fresno Bee
Hmong villages fight back against opium . . . The Nation |
| Still Wary of Outsiders, Japan Expects
Immigration Boom -- New
York Times iDial Networks Opens New Asian Market for Internet Telephony --
iDial Networks, Inc. . . . Business Wire/Yahoo! or Business
Wire VFW Officials Set to Visit Southeast Asia on MIA Issue -- U.S.
Newswire or Veterans of
Foreign Wars Los Angeles man identified -- AP/Sacramento Bee
or AP/New
Jersey Online ADB: Lao PDR's rural financial sector to be strengthened -- M2
Communications Smith says Cohen should have examined Vietnamese records -- Boston
Globe SEA GAMES: Malaysia's Games include 33 sports -- Bangkok Post |
| HA NOI AND VIENTIANE TO SIGN COOPERATION
AGREEMENTS -- Ha Noi and Vientiane, the capitals of Viet Nam and Laos,
respectively, are to sign cooperation agreements on construction, construction material
production, Vietnam News Agency Sport: Full NSC support for petanque -- New
Straits Times/Yahoo! Asia Literary & books: Map your way around Asean --
New
Straits Times/Yahoo! Asia Rep. Vento Returns From Cancer -- Vento said one of
his remaining priorities is passage of legislation that would make it easier for certain
Hmong immigrants -- a Laotian ethnic group -- to become U.S. citizens. The bill, whichStartribune |
| 5 Teenagers Charged In Gang Shooting:
Victim Was Shot To Death Last Saturday -- AP/Channel 4000
Exotic
destinations Vance-built M-Class goes to 135 countries -- Birmingham News
Vento touched by emotional welcome from House colleagues
-- Star
Tribune Asian-Americans at Higher Risk for Hepatitis C; Study Finds
Increased Risk for Those Born in Southeast Asia -- PR Newswire |
| SciClone Receives Three New Zadaxin(R)
Marketing Approvals -- PRNewswire/Yahoo! ASEAN: Troika system gets officials' approval
-- Bangkok
Post Abuse video to ease fear of reporting Southeast Asian
translations aid victims-- Fresno Bee
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| Action urged to curb child prostitution --
Bangkok Post |
| Progress with Sepon Acquisition and Cyprus
Exploration Programme -- Market
News PublishingBody of missing fisherman recovered from Utah Lake -- Deseret News |
| VIET NAM WISHES LAO PEOPLE AND PARTY MORE
ACHIEVEMENTS IN NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION -- Vietnam News
Agency CONGRATULATIONS ON LAO PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY ANNIVERSARY --
Vietnam
News Agency MEETING MARKS 45TH FOUNDING ANNIVESARY OF LAO PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY
PARTY -- Vietnam
News Agency Asian monetary fund to figure at ASEAN meeting -- AFP/Yahoo!
Asia Asean Fin Mins To Rehash Ongoing Issues In Brunei - Dow
Jones/Yahoo!Asia Witness testifies of rapes: Owner of Fresno house takes stand for
the prosecution. Snuk Vang, 29, one of more than a dozen members or associates of the
Mongolian Boys Society gang accused of raping at least nine girls, told a Fresno Bee |
| Poverty-stricken Laos girls fall prey to smugglers
of humans -- The Nation or The Nation DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES LAO EDUCATION MINISTER-- Vietnam News
Agency CYCLING / MOUNTAIN BIKE: Asian event due in April -- Bangkok Post Cambodia hosts workshop on lower-Mekong forests -- Australian
Broadcasting Corp DNA tests fail to establish bones' identity -- Pioneer
Planet or Pioneer
Planet INS Slammed For Releasing Criminals -- Star
Tribune Ritual slaughter -- Star
Tribune |
| LAO
EDUCATION MINISTER ON VIET NAM VISIT -- A high-level education delegation
from Laos led by Minister Phimmasone Leuangkhamma paid a working visit to the Friendship
School 80 in Son Tay township of Ha Tay Vietnam News Agency VIET NAM,
LAOS BOOST EDUCATION AND TRAINING COOPERATION-- Vietnam
News Agency CELEBRATIONS
OF LAO PARTY'S ANNIVERSARY IN VIET NAM-- Vietnam
News Agency Hyperinflation
under control, Lao minister says -- Kyodo
News FOCUS-IMF
says ASEAN on rebound, warns of complacency -- Reuters/Excite
News National:
Call to enhance regional fishery policies -- New
Straits Times/Yahoo! Asia IMF's
Saito Warns Asean Members On Econ, Monetary Policy -- Dow Jones/Yahoo! Asia ASEAN
ministers to focus on post-crisis reforms -- AFP/Yahoo!
Asia ASEAN aims
for common insurance for cross-border vehicles -- Kyodo News Internet
facilitates surveillance process: ADB expert -- AFP/Yahoo! Asia Thailand's
Ucom Affirms Readiness For End Of Iridium -- Newsbytes/Yahoo!
Asia CSUS lab puts accent
on speaking English clearly -- Sacramento Bee New Employer Steps Up Competition for
Workers in Hampton Roads Area-- PR Newswire/Excite |
| *Tiny splash sets wave
in motion -- The Nation *U.S says no MFN for Laos until disappearances solved -- Kyodo News *Biologists issue warning over deforestation in Indochina -- AFP/Yahoo! Singapore *VIET NAM, CAMBODIA, LAOS AND MYANMAR BOOST AIR TRANSPORT COOPERATION -- Vietnam News Agency *VIET NAM-LAOS FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION SETS ORIENTATION FOR 2000 -- Vietnam News Agency *NARCOTICS: Search on to locate new transit routes: Influx of 600 million speed pills expected -- Bangkok Post *ASEAN, China, Japan, South Korea agree on Asian fund: official -- AFP/Yahoo! Asia *Asean Finance And Central Bank Deputies Prepare Report -- Asia Pulse/Yahoo! Asia *FOCUS-ASEAN officials mull regional support fund -- Reuters/AltaVista *ASEAN finance ministers to discuss regional fund, peer review -- AFP/Yahoo! Singapore *Asean To Discuss Monetary Cooperation With North Asia -- Dow Jones/Yahoo! Asia |
| *US warns Laos and Burma over rights -- The Nation |
| *Hmong Rebels Step Up Resistance --
AP/Yahoo!,
Boston
Globe, Fox News, Star
Tribune or MSNBC
*Tourists deterred after renewed attacks by Hmong rebels -- South China Morning Post *Travellers facing guerilla threat in Laos -- Hong Kong Standard *Upsurge in Hmong attacks in Laos -- Australian Broadcasting Corp *PRIME MINISTER AFFIRMS VIET NAM'S ATTACH TO COOPERATION WITH LAOS -- Vietnam News Agency *VIETNAMESE AND LAO FOREIGN MINISTERS HOLD TALKS -- Vietnam News Agency *LAOS-VIET NAM JV BANK'S HA NOI BRANCH MAKES DEBUT -- Vietnam News Agency *Singapore Hu Cautions Asean Against Relaxing Econ Reform -- Dow Jones/Yahoo! Asia |
| *LAOS EXPECTS TO LEARN FROM VIET NAM'S
EXPERIENCES IN AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT -- Laos wishes to learn more from Viet
Nam's experiences in agricultural and rural development, visiting Lao Vietnam News Agency *N. Korea asks Laos for support to join ARF -- North Korea has asked its longtime supporter Laos to help in its bid to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF), the sole political and security Kyodo News *Japan to back Asian currency swap pact-Miyazawa -- Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said in an interview published on Wednesday that Japan supports an ASEAN proposal for a multilateral currency swap agreement aimed at heading Reuters/Yahoo! *Study hopes to narrow divide between Hmong shamans and Western doctors-- Pahoua Vue is a medicine man. For most of his 80 years, the Hmong shaman has chanted, drummed and sacrificed chickens and pigs while AP/Star Tribune |
| Press Conference To Discuss The
Anticipated Vote and Passage of Lao & Hmong "U.S. Secret Army" Legislation
By Congress -- Over two hundred Lao and Hmong veterans and their families from
across the United States, dressed U.S. Capitol Building Hmong-Lao citizenship chances advance -- The House
Judiciary Committee unanimously passed legislation Thursday that would make it easier for
America's Laotian allies during the Vietnam War to become U.S. citizens.Detroit Free Press, AP/Yahoo!, Star Tribune, Boston Globe, AP/AOL Panel OKs Hmong naturalization act -- Vang and
thousands of other Hmong fought with a CIA-led army in the mountains of Laos during the
Vietnam War. An estimated 300,000 have since fled to this country, with about 70,000
living inRocky Mountain News Hmong women lend support after tragedy -- Mai Thao
is a woman on a precipice. Every day, she wonders when and how she will be reunited with
her husband and five youngest children. Only one answer emerges: in death.Sacramento Bee Hmong may get citizenship waiver -- Now, one
congressman is trying to help members of the country's Hmong community, who number 7,000
in metro Detroit and 150,000 across the nation, in their struggle to be accepted and liveDetroit Free Press |
| British tourists among 13 injured in Laos
blast -- Reuters/AOL
Laos explosion injures 13 -- Hong Kong Standard
Tourists injured in Laos bomb blast -- AFP/Yahoo!
Asia Nine Injured in Laos Explosion -- AP/Yahoo!, AP/Northern
Light Tech, AP/AOL
or AP/MSNBC
Bomb Explodes Restaurant In Laotian Capital; Many Injured --
Dow
Jones/Yahoo! Asia EIGHT PEOPLE WOUNDED IN RESTAURANT ATTACK --
Agencia
EFE via Comtex Foreigners injured in Laos bomb blast -- Australian Broadcasting
Corp. or Excite
Australia Doctors in Laos fight primitive conditions -- Honolulu Star-Bulletin
LAO DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER WRAPS UP VIET
NAM VISIT -- Vietnam News Agency VIET NAM-LAOS BORDER GATE INAUGURATION -- Vietnam News
Agency Charges dropped in girl's suicide -- Fresno Bee
Hmong, neighbors negotiate zoning: Slaughterhouses represent
tradition, frustration -- Pioneer
Planet Congressman Champions Hmong -- KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS/Salt Lake
Tribune House panel approves Vento's Hmong citizenship bill --
Star
Tribune |
