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A still image from "Bayou, Buddha, and Padaek: Southern Louisiana's Lao Foodways" shows a Louisiana Lao family gathered ...
Soon, they began receiving calls from Legacies of War, and later, Aqua Survey. Legacies of War is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the impact of the Vietnam War ...
Laos, today a country of just 6 million people, remains the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita. Five decades after the war, these deadly items remain a persistent threat and daily ...
America's secret war sent my family fleeing Laos four decades ago. Now, I've just returned to my birthplace to help clear the unexploded ordnance.
War reshapes lives, leaving stories of courage, loss, and survival. Filmmakers have made countless great war movies — but ...
US ‘Secret War’ remembered as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits Laos. Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos’s history, when the US waged a years-long ‘Secret ...
Asia Society Northern California and the Japan Policy Research Institute hosted veteran journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern for a program on November 12 looking at the “secret” U.S. bombing of ...
Euphemism and secrecy are required in the special war in Laos because Laos itself is a special situation. Neutralized by the Geneva Accords of 1962, to which Russia and the U.S. agreed, ...
Just nine months after the 14-nation Geneva Conference guaranteed Laotian neutrality, Laos last week tottered on the brink of civil war and once again threatened to drag the major powers into a ...
A look at Minnesota's Lao community 50 years after the Vietnam War 04:45. Not all immigrants have experienced the same successes moving to Minnesota. For the modest Laotian community, a big ...