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In Vientiane, the royal Laotian government decided today to ask its `` friends and neighbors '' for help in fighting what it called a new rebel offensive threatening the southeast Asian kingdom.
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Vientiane and royal
But he had never seen the mountainous half of his native land north of Vientiane, including the royal capital, Luang Prabang.
On 9 August 1960, Captain Kong Le and his Special Forces-trained Neutralist paratroop battalion were able to seize control of the administrative capital of Vientiane in a virtually bloodless coup, while Prime Minister Tiao Samsanith, government officials, and military leaders met in the royal capital, Luang Prabang.
Operation Triangle cleared one of the few roads in Laos ; Route 13 connected the administrative capitol of Vientiane with the royal capitol of Luang Prabang.
The white elephant is a common royal symbol in Southeast Asia, the three heads referred to the three former kingdoms Vientiane, Luangprabang, and Champasak which made up the country.
Vientiane and Laotian
According to plans established by ASEAN, the line may also be extended via Thakhek all the way to the Laotian capital Vientiane.
* December 2 – In Laos, the communist party of the Pathet Lao takes over Vientiane and defeat the Kingdom of Laos which ends the Laotian Civil War but the ongoing Insurgency in Laos begins with the Pathet Lao fighting the Hmongs, Royalist-in-exile and the Right-wings.
* Laos: King Anouvong of Vientiane leads the Laotian Rebellion against Siam and successfully attacks Nakhon Ratchasima ( the Siamese later invade Vientiane and nearly destroy the whole city ).
According to plans established by ASEAN, the line may then be extended via Thakhek all the way to the Laotian capital Vientiane.
The vassal kingdoms, first Uttaradit in the north, then soon after the Laotian kingdoms of Luang Prabang and Vientiane ( Wiangchan ), liberated themselves from their overlord.
Chao Anouvong (; ; ), or regnal name Chaiya Sethathirath V (; ), ( 1767 – 1829 ), led the Laotian Rebellion ( 1826 – 1829 ) as the last monarch of the Lao Kingdom of Vientiane.
He was assigned the task of conquering Laotian kingdoms in 1778 and all the three kingdoms ( Vientiane, Luang Prabang, Champasak ) fell to the Siamese in the same year.
In 1826, Khun Ying Mo managed to save the city from an invasion by the Laotian army led by Prince Anouvong of Vientiane.
However, the Burmese King considered that as the Laotian states constituted his base for the maintenance of Burmese power in the territory further east, namely, Luang Prabang and Vientiane, Chiang Mai must be taken back, and so a Burmese army of 6, 000 men was sent there to carry out its mission in 1776.
The CIA's Clandestine Army would give way, harrying the PAVN and Pathet Lao as they retreated ; Raven FACs would direct massive air strikes against the communists by USAF jets and RLAF T-28s to prevent the capture of the Laotian capitals of Vientiane and Luang Prabang.
When Kong Le retreated from Vientiane, he took with him two usable C-47s and two L-20 Beavers from Aviation Laotienne and formed the Neutralist Laotian Air Force.
The Laotian capital Vientiane is only 25 kilometres away from the provincial capital of Nong Khai.
This was accomplished in 1786 with the founding of Ubon Ratchathani by Thao Khamphong, the Laotian prince who fled from Vientiane.
In 1778 Chakri led a Siamese army which captured Vientiane, also Luang Phrabang, a northern Lao kingdom submitted, and eventually established Siamese domination over Laotian kingdoms.
The French Cultural Center of Vientiane pays someone to correct the articles written by Laotian journalists.
He led the army from Bangkok that put down the 1826 – 1828 Laotian Rebellion () of Chao Anouvong of Vientiane ().
Vientiane and government
Although we enjoyed our rounds of the government offices in Vientiane, with officials offering tea and pleasing conversation in French, we were getting nowhere.
After Kaysone's death, the government of Laos built an eight million dollar gold-plated museum in Kaysones honor, in Vientiane, partially funded by Vietnam.
In 2010, to coincide with the 450th Anniversary celebrations of Vientiane, the Lao government created the Chao Anouvong Park, complete with a large bronze statue of the locally revered King.
He was offered an official government residence in Vientiane, but preferred to stay in his villa, Xieng Keo, in Luang Prabang with his Thai consort, Mom Aphiphorn.
Souvanna Phouma, together with his brother, Prince Phetsarath Rattanavongsa ( 1891 – 1959 ) and his half-brother, Prince Souphanouvong ( 1909 – 1995 ), at around the end of World War II, joined Lao Issara ( Free Laos ) movement established to counter the French occupation and its provisional Vientiane government ( 1945 – 46 ).
Shortly after the Paris Peace Accords ended US involvement in the Vietnam war, the Pathet Lao and the government of Laos signed a cease-fire agreement, the Vientiane Treaty, in February 1973.
Phoumi was nominated both Secretary-General of the Front, and Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister in the Pathet Lao Resistance government that the Front established in opposition to the Royal Lao government in Vientiane.
A number of attempts were made to establish coalition governments, and a " tri-coalition " government was finally seated in Vientiane.
The band moved northward to the administrative capitol of Vientiane with its provisional revolutionary government.
The Neutralist forces in Vientiane organized the Executive Committee of the High Command of the Revolution as the interim government in Laos the following day.
In 1945-1946, the Free Lao government in Vientiane issued a series of paper money in denominations of 10, 20 and 50 att and 10 kip before the French authorities took control of the region.
The Vientiane Treaty was a cease-fire agreement between the two warring Lao factions-the monarchial government of Laos and the communist Pathet Lao-signed in Vientiane ( the capital of Laos ), on February 21, 1973.
Under the terms of the treaty, a new coalition government was to be created ; security in major cities ( such as Vientiane ) was to be undertaken by joint forces from both sides.
It is governed by a ministry-level government agency, the Lao National Tourism Administration, located in Vientiane.
Vientiane and decided
In early October 1959 the Phoui Sananikone Government decided to use Phetsarath's official residence in Vientiane as the new prime minister's office.
Vientiane and today
The capital was moved in 1560 by King Setthathirath I to Vientiane, which remains the capital today.
Phya Sisatthama was thus made Lord of Vientiane, and given the title Phya Chantaburi, who built Wat Chan and Pia Wat that can be still found in Vientiane today.
Vientiane and its
While legend traces this statue to India, its rich historical records dates its finding in Cambodia in the 15th century, moved to Laos in the 16th century and then to Vientiane where it remained for 215 years, and finally to Thailand in the 18th century.
In the meantime, the Khmers founded an outpost at Xay Fong near Vientiane, and Champa expanded again in southern Laos, maintaining its presence on the banks of the Mekong until 1070.
In the meantime, the Khmers founded an outpost at Xayfong near Vientiane, and Champa expanded again in southern Laos, maintaining its presence on the banks of the Mekong until 1070.
The Aviation Laotienne was founded at Wattay Airfield, Vientiane at this time ; its initial unit was the First Observation and Liaison Squadron.
Tang Frères has several retail outlets throughout Paris and its immediate suburbs, as well as an outlet in Vientiane, the capital of Laos – the country of origin of the company's founding brothers.
Pha That Luang and its place in Vientiane
The LEC recently started a Bible school training programme at its headquarters in the state capital Vientiane.
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