5.11.18 - 5.17.18

• Variety: Veena Sud, Kulap Vilaysack, and more on Increasing Asian-American Representation in Hollywood: ‘This Has to Be a Movement’

• Vientiane City Guide: Where to Eat, Drink, Shop, and Stay in Laos’ Capital.

• Senator of Rhode Island Commemorates Heroism of Hmong and Lao Soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery

• Chronicle: A Mosquito Bite Nearly Killed Me

• Laos Angeles Executive Director, Kulap Vilaysack, and husband Scott Aukerman featured in Emmy Magazine spread.

• Marine Veteran Harasses Elderly Lao American Veteran in Sacramento.

• Sahtu Press printing a children's book: 'Mommy Eats Fried Grasshoppers' - coming this fall!

• Hmong veterans gather in Madison to celebrate Hmong-Lao Veterans Appreciation Day

• Sysamone Phaphon attended ‘Top Moms of Color in Tech’

• #RepresentationMatters:

  • Watch This: Inside scoop on the makings of Origin Story Doc by Director Kulap Vilaysack

  • Laos Angeles Roots member Vannaphone Meng Lothi’s son, Izaac Wang, books first feature film!

  • New York Times: Hiro Murai on the ‘Atlanta’ Finale and ‘This Is America’ Video

  • HuffPost: Ali Wong - Asian-Americans Are Opening Doors For Other Asian-Americans In Hollywood

  • Rita Phetmixay wins an award for her short ‘Phetmixay Means Fighter’ at CAAMFest36!

  • Hollywood Reporter: Cannes: Southeast Asia Is Ready for Its Big-Screen Close-up

  • AA Press: Lao Documentary to Screen at CAAMFest

• Motherland News:

  • Asia Times: The legacy of the US ‘secret war’ still takes a deadly toll on Laos

  • Asia Times: Little Laos Risks Losing It All to China

  • New Bus Routes Create Better Connection Between Thailand and Laos

• #LaoFoodMovement:

  • Snackboxe Bistro at it again and featured in a newspaper article!

3.16.18 - 3.22.18

• Laos Angeles Roots volunteer at The LA Kitchen

• Comedian and activist Jenny Yang urges us to remake our culture that is hostile to women - especially women of color

• Laos Angeles Roots Fam, Rita Phetmixay is featured in Asian Pacific American Network

• #AAPIindustry news: CAPE Board Member, Rina Brannen, is leaving agency life to be the Head of Development at Daniel Dae Kim's company 3AD and Lauren Yee writes compelling Asian play that is to be featured at South Coast Repertory.

• Paisley University students partner with VoluntourLaos to help supply clean water for Ban Had Kam Villiage in Laos

• Thipsavanh Silaleoon, third-year business student, joins Intercultural Night to perform a mash-up of a traditional Lao dance.

• Washington Times: Tourist taken by the beauty of Laos!

• #RepresentationMatters : Meet the Asian George Washington and Actors Defying Asian Stereotypes,  Karen Fukuhara has been cast as a series regular Amazon’s straight-to-series superhero drama The Boys, 57 year old Junko Cheng books her first acting role  in Taylor Swift's 'Delicate'

• ATTENTION: The Poetry Foundation offers scholarships of up to $25,800 each

• #LaoFoodMovement : Eater Philadelphia highlights West Philly’s Vientiane Café in their “Adventurous Eats” and new food truck, Lao-Thai Xpress is up and running in Crestview, FL  

• Both born in Laos -- Mary Nguyen Aregoni has big plans for two food brands Bang Chop Thai Kitchen & Saigon Sisters and Tony Yang shares his experiences coming to the United States

• Laos Angeles Roots volunteer at The LA Kitchen.

• Lao Argentinian family reached out to Little Laos on the Prairie to help find lost family in U.S. Good news, they found!

• Laos is changing, the economy of Vientiane, Laos is changing with an influx of Chinese investment and Vang Vieng cleans up and gets first international-class hotel

• A Top-Secret U.S. Base On Laos Mountaintop Was Overrun By Elite Vietnamese Commandos 50 years ago

• The Lao village of Lahanam flourishes with higher demand for indigo dyed thread

• In other motherland news, Laos is offering incentives to Lao expats and requests deportation agreements to be handled case by case when served by the U.S. Government.

• Thailand is determined to legalize all 3.8 million foreign migrant workers -- many of Laotian descent, and indicts Laos drug lord, ‘Mr X’ for life

2.16.18 - 2.22.18

- In an interview from last year, Kulap Vilaysack gives background on why she feels Laos Angeles is necessary.  

- Black Panther director Ryan Coogler can teach Hollywood about making the industry more inclusive.  

- New business alert: Talaat Sao

- Director Dr. Steve Arounsack's documentary "Getting LAO/D" premieres on Friday, Feb. 23 at 6:30 p.m. at the 2018 Seattle Asian American Film Festival.

- Rebecca Rusch’s journey on the Ho Chi Minh trail as captured in Blood Road opened her eyes to the millions of deadly unexploded ordnance (UXO) that still litter the Laos countryside.

- A champion mountain biker faces her toughest challenge: clearing bombs from Laos.

- Author puts Lao coroner-detective on Asian literary map. 

- For nearly three decades, the American master weaver Carol Cassidy has been working with Laotian silk weavers on the grounds of a grand old colonial mansion in Vientiane.

- Chinese company signs agreement to build elephant protection center in Laos.

- The Gibbon Experience is a good example of when tourism combines with forest conservation.

- Government moves to boost visitor numbers amid multiple challenges to sector. 

- China Southern adds Lao route to their flight paths. 

-  Khaen declared humanity’s heritage. 

- Laos remakes itself as an adventure center, an evolution that serves the country and its visitors well.

- Saengthong Douangdara did a sakoo yat sai cooking demonstration on KTLA, a local LA station. Recipe can be found here.