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| Laos: Laos: Crimes on the Rise in Vientiane Capital | |  Lao authorities admit crimes have been on the rise in the capital city of Vientiane and increasingly violent in nature.
Security officials reveal that, in the past three months alone, they arrested more than 320 members of various organized crime groups, adding that since then they have been able to make more and more arrests as a result of their extensive interrogations of suspected criminals who incriminate fellow gang members. Officials say during a recent 20-day period, they were able to arrest 192 people involved in more than 160 crimes.
However, the head of the Vientiane Public Security Department, Col. Bounthieng Chanthamounkhoune, acknowledges that it is impossible for his men to make quick arrests of the majority of gang members because the criminals are heavily armed and confront them with assault weapons, as in the case of a recent raid in the That Luang area which resulted in the loss of one of his men and three serious injuries caused by shrapnels from a bomb thrown at them by the criminals.
Beside robberies, burglaries and thefts, drug smuggling and trafficking are also on the rise. In the most recent case, Vientiane's Wattay Airport authorities seized four kilograms of opium hidden in a package of soaps and facial creams destined for the United States.
In a related development, the Lao People's High Court reports that, in the past year, it has received more than 6,690 indictments against people suspected in various crime cases, of which 43% are drug-related.
Public security officials blame the increase in the number of criminals and the rise in crimes on the current economic situation, unemployment, and lack of educational opportunity for the majority of Lao youth, making them vulnerable and easily lured into organized crimes.
Songrit Pongern reported in Lao. Dara Baccam summarized in English.
http://www.voanews.com/lao/2009-08-25-voa4.cfm
| | | | | | |  Lao officials reaffirm their government’s policy to welcome and solicit overseas Laotians to go back and help develop the country, adding that they are also ready to grant Lao citizenship to those who renounce their current nationality.
During an interview with VOA Bangkok stringer, Laos’ Ambassador to Thailand Ouane Phommachack confirmed that his government has had a policy to welcome Laotians from overseas to help develop the country for over 30 years, but it had not been publicly acknowledged until now.
Neverthless, the pursuance of this policy continually has resulted in the flow of overseas Laotians returning to Laos for different purposes, including going back to visit relatives, to invest, and to help the Lao government in various capacities as well as to live there permanently. However, those who wish to regain their Lao nationality, they must renounce their current citizenship, because Lao laws stipulate that all Lao nationals cannot hold dual nationality.
According to Ambassador Phommachack, regardless of his/her nationality and objectives, every overseas Laotian who wishes to return to Laos will receive support from his government as long as his/her activities in Laos conform with Laos’ laws and regulations.
At the seventh session of the Lao National Assembly's Sixth Legislature last month, a new draft law proposed by the Lao Front for National Construction was adopted to encourage overseas Laotians who want to return home to take part in the national development.
The enactment of this legislation, aimed at galvanizing unity and reconciliation among Lao people from all walks of life, both in and out of the country, and in particular to mobilize contributions of overseas Laotians to the national building and development, is necessary to respond to the rapidly-changing global environment.
Upon officially taking effect, the new law would authorize the Lao Front for National Construction to take a key role in considering granting nationality to overseas Laotians who want to return home permanently.
Vientiane's latest attempt to woo overseas Laotians back home follows a successful model employed by its Vietnamese ally in encouraging overseas Vietnamese or Vietnamese diasporas to go back and help contribute to the national development.
Songrit Pongern reported in Lao from Bangkok on August 26, 2009. (English translation by Buasawan Simmala.)
http://www.voanews.com/lao/2009-08-29-voa3.cfm
| | | | | | | Laos: Lao Deputy PM: Lao Mass Media Needs to Improve | | Lao leaders say Lao mass media needs to improve their quality in both substances and human resources, while firmly adhering to the Party’s political lines.
Presiding over a recent ceremony marking the 59th Lao National Mass Media Day in Vientiane, Deputy Prime Minister Boungnang Vorachit stressed that with 8 press agencies, 35 radio stations and 32 television stations across the country, Lao media has developed and grown in every aspects, playing a vital role in disseminating information to the public and promoting the country’s socio-economic development.
However, in the current borderless era of information technology, Lao people are able to enjoy broader access to up-to-date information from abroad, and that inevitably affects their political ideas. Therefore, Lao media needs to address its weaknesses and limitations in all aspects in order to meet the challenges.
In response to the expanding demand for media service in the country, Laos has set a goal in its 2009-10 socio-economic plan, which will be implemented beginning this coming October until next September, to expand its radio signals to cover 90% of the country’s land areas, and increase the areas covered by Lao national television signals up to 70% .
In addition, the government has announced plans to develop an optic fiber cable system across the country, at an estimated cost of US$ 100 million, to enable media transmissions via Internet and allow public and private communication services across the country to link to each other and to the rest of the world by 2012 at the latest.
http://www.voanews.com/lao/2009-08-31-voa5.cfm
| | | | | | | United States: LANA Takes a Lead in Getting Laotian-Americans Counted in the 2010 Census | | The United States 2010 Census is an important head count of every resident of this country regardless of their race, gender and occupation. What makes the 2010 Census so significant is that the head count takes place only every 10 years. The last census, collected in 2000, counted less Laotian-Americans than the actual numbers at the time.
Mr. Sourichanh (Noi/Sirch) Chanthyasack, President/Chair of the Laotian American National Alliance (LANA) a national 501c3 advocacy organization founded in 1999 based in Washington, D.C., speaking by phone from his San Francisco residence, talked to VOA about the role of his organization in leading efforts to encourage members of the multi-ethnic Laotian American community across the nation to participate in the upcoming decennial US Census.
| | | | | | | Laos: Issara visits rescued female Lao workers | | By: LAMPHAI INTATHEP
Published: 23/05/2009 at 12:00 AM
Social Development and Human Security Minister Issara Somchai recently visited 20 young illegal Lao workers rescued from a sweatshop where they were forced to work 15 hours a day making garlands without pay or any days off.
The migrants, all females aged from 12-18, were sent to the Kredtrakarn Protection and Occupational Development Centre after police raided the sweatshop and rescued them on May 14.
The raid followed the police arrest on May 8 of a 15-year-old Lao girl who was selling flower garlands at Wat Rai Khing in Nakhon Pathom province.
The girl, an illegal migrant, told the police that 19 other Lao girls were being kept as slave workers at a house in Samut Sakhon's Krathum Baen district.
Police raided the house on May 14. The house owners, Kasem Pensuk, 48, and Thawanrat Sukprasertngam, 42, were arrested and charged with human trafficking, housing and employing illegal workers, and illegal use of child labour.
The girls said they were forced to make flower garlands from 5am to 8pm every day without pay or days off.
Nang, 14, whose fingers were severely blistered because of the hard work, said she came to work in Thailand to help ease the financial burden of her poor parents back in Laos.
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