Word: lao
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...better part of five decades, former Laotian President Nouhak Phoumsavanh held the second highest position in what is now Laos' ruling communist organization, the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. He first became involved with the group in 1945, when Laos was still under French rule, and later represented a Laotian communist organization at the 1954 conference in Geneva that ultimately resulted in independence for his homeland. Toward the end of his long tenure in government, he succeeded President Kaysone Phomvihan when he died in 1992. Nouhak, who was President through 1998, died...
...More than 250 miles (400 km) downriver, China Inc. is also reshaping Laos' riverside capital, Vientiane. The landlocked nation has been shunned by many international investors as one of the world's last remaining hard-line socialist regimes. But what others consider a pariah state, China sees as an ideological soul mate and business partner. The biggest thoroughfare in Vientiane, as well as the capital's main park and the National Cultural Hall, were all built with money given to the city by the Beijing government. More than 3,000 Chinese laborers are also busy constructing a national stadium...
...Among those charged with conspiracy to kill, kidnap and maim, among other accusations, was General Vang Pao, a member of the Hmong minority whose guerrilla forces had been funded by the CIA during the Vietnam War to fight the Viet Cong-aligned communists of the Pathet Lao. Along with an estimated 200,000 Laotian Hmong, Vang Pao fled to the U.S. after America withdrew from Indochina in 1975 and communist forces took over Laos and Vietnam. Now, the 77-year-old ex-CIA operative, along with nine other Laotian-born Americans and a former U.S. Army ranger who served...
UNTIL PIONEERING MAKEUP artist Bill Tuttle stunned audiences with his work in 1964's 7 Faces of Dr. Lao--which featured Tony Randall as everyone from Merlin to Medusa--cosmetic artistry was hardly recognized. In 1965 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Tuttle an honorary Academy Award, paving the way for the official Oscar category, established...
...fourth annual Intercollegiate Karaoke Contest hosted by the Harvard Hong Kong Society (HHKS) Saturday night. Judges deemed the New Jerseyan Miller the “audience favorite” for his performance of “Mouse Loves Rice,” or “Lao Shu Ai Da Mi,” as he held his own against other contestants who were native speakers. “Now that I’ve been speaking for a year and a half, I feel confident in my Mandarin,” said Miller. The HHKS contest, in Boylston Hall...