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FEATURE-Thailand's boom: To the northeast, the spoils
ReutersBy Paul Carsten and Pairat Temphairojana UDON THANI, Thailand, June 17(Reuters) - Steel girders jut from the low skyline of the Thai city of Udon Thani near the Laos border as workers lay cement for a new shopping mall, one of many illustrating a boom in...Tags: Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand, Bangkok (Thailand), Vietnam, Politics
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Thailand's boom: To the northeast, the spoils
ReutersUDON THANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Steel girders jut from the low skyline of the Thai city of Udon Thani near the Laos border as workers lay cement for a new shopping mall, one of many illustrating a boom in the Thai economy beyond the bright lights of...Tags: Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, Bangkok (Thailand), Vietnam, World Bank Group
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China warns U.N. against "irresponsible remarks" on N.Koreans
ReutersBEIJING, June 3 (Reuters) - China warned the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees on Monday against making "irresponsible remarks" about nine North Korean defectors the U.N. believes were repatriated to their isolated, authoritarian homeland by China...Tags: North Korea, Crime, Law and Justice, International Law, Politics, Human Rights
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Laos assailed for sending young defectors back to North Korea
SEOUL — Laos is coming under increasing international criticism for its unusual decision to turn over to the North Korean government nine defectors, most of them homeless teenagers. The young North Koreans were arrested by Laotian authorities...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, North Korea, Politics, Civil Rights, South Korea
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UN fears nine North Korean defectors sent home by China
ReutersGENEVA, May 31 (Reuters) - China is believed to have returned nine young North Korean defectors to their homeland, where they face possible severe punishment or even execution, the United Nations said on Friday. The U.N. human rights office as well as...Tags: North Korea, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Justice and Rights, Politics
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Lack of answers tests the faith and mettle of families and searchers alike
McClatchy Washington BureauTA-OY, Laos In military lingo, the location of the lost crew of Spooky 21 was a classic SWAG: Scientific Wild-Ass Guess. That's the term investigators use for figuring out something as unpredictable as where a plane should have crashed when it got...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, Broken Bones
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A long-ago war, a missing plane and an enduring mystery
McClatchy Washington BureauTA-OY, Laos Maj. Derrell Jeffords bounced his roaring Spooky 21 down and off the runway at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. It was just before 7:30 a.m., on Christmas Eve 1965. The big camouflaged belly of his twin-prop AC-47 was easily visible against a blue...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religious Festivals
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After decades of searching, could a handful of debris provide the answer?
McClatchy Washington BureauARLINGTON, Va. Nearly half a century passed before the suspected remains of six airmen made the journey from a rice paddy in southeastern Laos to a forensics lab near Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. But once those remains arrived, the experts preparing to...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Stranger Than Fiction, Medical Procedures and Tests, Vietnam
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Kino Lorber Readies 'The Rocket' for Launch
VarietyGotham-based distributor Kino Lorber has picked up all U.S. and Canadian rights to "The Rocket," Kim Mordaunt's feature that bowed at Berlin and scored a hat-trick of kudos at the Tribeca Film Festival. Distributor plans a national theatrical release for...Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca, Australia, Entertainment, TriBeCa Film Festival
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Alison Wright, photographer, chases faces, grace
Alison Wright got her first camera at age 10, a Kodak Instamatic. Then she learned there was such a thing as a photojournalist, a person who traveled the world taking pictures. So that was that. She had a career – a career that would eventually...
Tags: Arts, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, Interior Policy, Indigenous People
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Tribeca 2013: 'Rocket,' 'Bridegroom' win fest's audience prizes
NEW YORK -- Kim Mordaunt’s Laos-set tale “The Rocket” continued its stratospheric ride through the festival universe Saturday, picking up the audience award in the narrative category at the Tribeca Film Festival after previously...
Tags: Festive Events, Entertainment, TriBeCa Film Festival, Movies, Film Festivals
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Apr. 26 in History: Luis Soto Juarez, 51, convicted of killing one California Highway patrol officer
>> 50 Years Ago — EL CENTRO — “Laos is lost … down the drain,” Virgil Pinkley, editor and publisher of the Post and Press Newspapers, told members of the El Centro Rotary Club yesterday. He called for a drive, starting in...Tags: Highway Transportation, U.S. Border Patrol
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