08.14.20 - 08.20.20

• #LaosAngelesRoots

  • Laos Angeles Shine featuring Angela Day!

• #Representation + #LaotianDiaspora

  • How Jujubee from 'Drag Race' infused her Laotian culture into her persona and onto the screen (NBC News)

  • Popular local Hmong filmmaker dies from COVID-19 complications (KMPH Fox26 News)

  • The Vang family traveled from Laos to France to Minnesota to Florida to Nevada…in order to start a perfect French bakery—in Maplewood (Sahan Journal)

• Motherland News…

  • Laos is a missing link in Asia's fight against organized crime (CNN)

  • Laos' Collective Approach to Healthcare (BBC)

  • Laos to face sharp decline in remittances due to pandemic (The Star Online)

  • New Mekong dam ignores threats to UNESCO World Heritage city, livelihoods and ecosystems (ASEAN Today)

  • 14.5-km tunnel on China-Laos railway drilled through (The Star Online)

  • Mekong nations pressed to share data as water level falls to new low (Reuters)

  • Public debt of Laos set to increase due to pandemic effect (The Star Online)

• Visit Laos

  • Lao Zoo refocuses vision from entertainment to education (The Star Online)

  • Why agritourism will be the post-coronavirus luxury travel trend – ditch the heels and plant rice or herd cattle in Laos, Cambodia and South Africa  (South China Morning Post)

• #LaoFoodMovement

  • Urban Laotians pay handsomely for ant-egg soup (The Economist)

  • For Laotian Refugees in Richmond, Food Is Part of the Community’s Survival Story (Eater SF)