4.20.18 - 4.26.18

 

• Laos Angeles Roots member and Executive Director of #LaosAngeles, Kulap Vilaysack is a founding member of a new shared workspace, a matriarchal oasis named THE JANE CLUB.

• Sysamone Phaphon was nominated for the ‘26 influential Moms of color in tech" list!

• For your viewing pleasure:

  • Crazy Rich Asians Full Trailer

  • Laos Simply Beautiful Music Video

• Motherland News:

  • National Geographic: How New Cheeses Are Propelling Laos into the Spotlight

  • UNICEF: Ending Polio in Laos

  • ADP approves $30 million for Laos Health Services

  • Lexology: Minimum wage increase in Laos

• #LaoNewYear:

  • Laos Angeles members attend Hollywood’s Songkran Fest!

• #RepresentationMatters:

  • Laos Angeles Roots member Somlit Inthalangsy dropping Asian Magic Mike on May 4th!

  • Our favorite singer and Laos Angeles Roots member Lina Lean Mean Luangrath has a steady live gig at Sofitel Hotel in Beverly Hills!

  • Papermag: ‘Crazy Rich Asians' Is The First Hollywood Movie With An All-Asian Cast In 25 Years

  • Community leader and Laos Angeles Roots member Ova Saopeng sharing his story at the University-Student Union 4/27 at 5pm!

  • Laos Angeles Roots member Rita Phetmixay’s ‘Phetmixay Means Fighter’ will be premiering next weekend before Kulap Vilaysack’s at San Francisco based CAAMFest!

• #LaoFoodMovement:

  • Use code ‘LAONEWYEAR’ at Ninja Foods to receive 15% off now through 4/30!

  • News Review: Laos Kitchen

4.13.18 - 4.19.18

4.13.18 - 4.19.18

• #LaoNewYear2018:

  • Friday, April 20th at 9PM - Join EraNetik & Collective Society Entertainment at the Soho Gastropub in San Diego.

  • Sunday, April 22nd 8AM - 8PM - Attend Hollywood’s Songkran Fest!

  • Buddhist monks clean and wash Buddha statues during Songkran Water Festival in Laos

  • Kinnaly Lao Traditional Music & Dance Troupe will be in Washington, D.C. performing at the Lao Embassy New Year Celebration taking place April 27th-28th, 2018.

  • Xinhaunet: Songkran Festival in Luang Prabang, Lao

• Thakhek, Laos has been chosen as one of the ‘Most Scenic Motorbike Rides Around the World’ according to Urban Daddy.

• Asia Sentinel: The Endangered Last ‘Blank Spot’ on Indochina’s Map - Attapeu, Laos.

• Get an inside look on bride trafficking in Laos and China.

• New York Times: Why So Many Asian-American Women Are Bleaching Their Hair Blond

• Anchorage Daily News: House Bill 125 recognizes Hmong veterans with rights.

• ATTENTION: Asian Womxn in the Arts is taking submissions for their Cycle 1 Celebration show! Email submissions & questions to: connect.awa@gmail.com

• #RepresentationMatters:

  • Cathy Yan Is Warner Bros’ Choice To Direct Margot Robbie In Next Harley Quinn Film

  • Awkwafina to star in self-titled Comedy Central Pilot.  

  • Crazy Rich Asians dropped a sneak peak of their trailer!

  • Time Magazine: The Most Influential People in the World - We spy many Asian Americans!

  • Laos Angeles Roots member, Rita Phetmixay, will be screening her short film ‘Phetmixay Means Fighter’ at this years CAAMFest.

  • Asian American Press highlights film ‘Growing up Hmong at the Crossroads’ that follows many Lao Diaspora families.  

  • Next Shark: Why Mulan is the Ultimate Asian American

• #LaoFoodMovement:

  • Queen of the Lao Food Movement, Chef Seng, opens up about her upbringing in an intimate interview with the Courageous Kitchen.

  • James Syhabout shares his beef satay recipe with widely popular food blog: Food 52.

4.6.18 - 4.12.18

HAPPY LAO NEW YEAR!

• Bet you have never seen Obama drinking a coconut in Luang Prabang.

• Cape Cod Times: Mashpee students use 3-D printing to help Laotian schoolchildren 

• Catzie Vilayphonh took her oath of office as a Council Member for Pennsylvania’s Council on the Arts!

• The remains of almost half of the 573 American service personnel presumed missing in action (MIA) in Laos during the Indo-China War have been located.

• Hmong colonel who fought with U.S. in Vietnam gets full military burial.

• Motherland News: 

  • Women from Hong Kong help with the Rugby Revolution in Laos.

  • The Greater Mekong Subregion countries (like Laos) once plagued from poverty are now economic success stories.

  • Road trip to Mekong: Four women bikers rode motorcycles through seven nations in seven weeks. Laos included. 

  • Baby born via Lao surrogate four years after the death of parents.

  • Borneo Bulletin: It is confirmed that the conservation of Vat Phou will be carried out through the years.

  • United Nations Population Fund: Rural midwives help save mothers giving birth in Laos.

• #RepresentationMatters:

  • Sandra Oh booked her dream role: ‘Killing Eve’  

  • Laos Angeles Roots member Lina Luangrath is having her third performance this spring at the Hotel Sofitel in Beverly Hills.

  • Screen Steve Arounsack’s film: Getting Lao'd - The Growth of Lao Music and Film Scene

  • Refugee camp born, Kao Kalia Yang, speaks about her new book & how her parent's immigration story has inspired her.  

  • HBO Show, Westworld, rounds out incredibly diverse cast ahead of season 2.

• #LaoFoodMovement:

  • Laos Angeles Roots member, Saengthong Douangdara spreads the Lao Food love at UCLA!

  • Celebrate Asian Pacific American Month by eating all of the food! Save the date and join Saengthong Douangdara at the LA Food Bowl!

  • Have you tried the native Lao food: Chili Wood?

3.30.18 - 4.5.18

• NBC News: Congress passes law allowing national cemetery burials for Lao and Hmong 'Secret War' veterans.

• Lao Khaen music declared humanity’s heritage by UNESCO.

• Celebrate #LaoNewYear with Krysada Binly Panusith Phounsiri and EraNetik Kennedy Phounsiri at  Market Creek Plaza at 3:30 PM on April 8th!

• Mother’s seek to combat breastfeeding stigma in Asian-American communities.

• For your viewing pleasure: Brief History on Asian America

• Charlotte Observer: Asian Americans think an elite college degree will shelter them from discrimination. It wont.

• Legacies of War: March 2018 Newsletter featuring: Huge win for UXO sector in Laos; Announcing LaoNow 2018; Join the Circle of Hope

• Laotion Times: Harrison Ford Visits Luang Prabang

• #RepresentationMatters:

  • Executive Director Kulap Vilaysack's documentary will be be premiered at this year’s Bentonville Film Festival. It was also chosen to be the centerpiece documentary at this year’s CAAMFest!

  • All Raise’s founding members made history by becoming the first all-women venture capitalists featured on the cover of Forbes magazine.

  • Entertainment Weekly: Pixar’s Short Film ‘Bao’ (created by Domee Shi) is your ‘Incredibles 2’ Appetizer

  • Writer of ‘The Song Poet’ - Kao Kalia Yang talks about how she has no memory of Laos.

  • Founder of FilmHero, Sysamone Phaphon, talks about What Indie Filmmakers Need To Generate More Revenue And Visibility on Forbes.

• #LaoFoodMovement:

  • Laos Angeles Roots member, Saengthong Douangdara spreads the Lao food love at William Sonoma in Beverly Hills!

  • Malina Syvoravong shares one of Saengthong Douangdara’s recipes on the North Coast Journal.

• ATTENTION: Submit your shorts to NBC Universal Short Film Festival by April 30th!

3.23.18 - 3.29.18

• Watch the US Drop 2.5 Million Tons of Bombs on Laos.

• ATTENTION: 23 and Me is giving out free genetic tests if all four of your grandparents were born in Laos!

• The Guardian: Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?

• #RepresentationMatters:

  • Miya Cech cast in The Darkest Minds directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

  • Phillip from You Offend Me You Offend My Family discusses Asian representation in American film industry and documents Asian Americans at the Los Angeles Gun March: #MarchForOurLives.

  • Diversity is dominating the 2018 box office.

  • Pixar's next short film 'Bao' explores an empty-nesting Chinese mother - directed by Domee Shi.

• In motherland news:

  • We are witnessing the motherland developing quicker than ever before.

  • Nobphalat Sikaiphak crowned Miss Grand Laos 2018

  • Borneo Bulletin explores the hidden waterfalls in the land of 4,000 islands

  • Lao government looks to solidify ties with neighboring states and major powers like Russia.

  • Laos ties with Bangladesh 2-2 in soccer.

  • Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith wants to make the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party more transparent.

  • The Rosewood opens second Southeast Asian location in Luang Prabang.

  • Visitor attraction now open at the Vientiane City Wall.

• #LaoFoodMovement:

  • Vanh Sengaphone & Thip Athakhanh open up Snackboxe Bistro in Atlanta.

  • Laos in the House hosting 3rd Annual Pop Up Dinner in Philly.

  • Observer Dispatch spotlights Taste of Laos in Utica.

• #ImmigrantsMakeAmericaGreat:

  • Amphone Phetsisouk, definition of a refugee who risked everything to come to America, laid to rest at 63 years old.

  • Clarkston Community Center hosts first International Spring Festival with Lao culture featured.

  • Bounlorm Soumetho (family member to many Laos Angeles Roots Members)  acknowledged for his leadership in the Lao American Community of Minnesota.