Word: phanom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, thousands of Indochinese continue to flee to Thailand. About 12,200 Laotians are being held in a detention center at Nakorn Phanom. Another 4,800 Vietnamese are in indefinite limbo at Si-khiu Prison. The boat people are also seeking asylum in other Asian countries. About 15 a day arrive in Hong Kong, half of whom would be considered ineligible for resettlement in the U.S. under the new policy. What will happen to these immigrants is still unclear. An American diplomat in Bangkok explained that the new U.S. policy is meant as a warning for potential refugees...
Each August the residents of the hamlet of Baan Nabua, 30 miles south of the Mekong River center of Nakhon Phanom, stop all work and open their stilted houses to visitors for a celebration. Government officials gather for a feast and an all-night spectacle that features classical Thai dancing and Kung Fu movies. The holiday is called the Stop the Gunfire Festival: it commemorates the government's success in quelling a Communist insurgency that once infested most of Thailand's 16 northeastern provinces. This year the eight-man band that played popular tunes at Baan Nabua...