Actually it would be more accurate to say that the leader of the alliance now has swung fully behind the British policy of seeking to achieve a neutral Laos via the international bargaining table.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;

This is another of the modifications of policy on Laos that the Kennedy administration has felt compelled to make.

The Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ) has established diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as well as all of its Asian neighbors, to include the People's Republic of China, India, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, and Thailand.

The Mekong has thus not been an obstacle but a facilitator for communication, and the similarities between Laos and northeast Thai society — same people, same language — reflect the close contact that has existed across the river for centuries.

Although the Mekong was established as a border by French colonial forces, travel from one side to the other has been significantly limited only since the establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( LPDR, or Laos ) in 1975.

Laos has a tropical monsoon climate, with a pronounced rainy season from May through October, a cool dry season from November through February, and a hot dry season in March and April.

Because of its mountainous topography and lack of development, Laos has few reliable transportation routes.

At the same time, international concern about environmental degradation and the loss of many wildlife species unique to Laos has also prompted the government to consider the implications of these developments.

With a median age of 19. 3, Laos has the youngest population of Asia.

Laos has constructed a new highway connecting Savannakhet to the Vietnamese border at Lao Bao, with funding coming from the Japanese government.

This has greatly facilitated travelling across Laos.

In terms of sea travel, Laos has a merchant marine consisting of 1 cargo ship of.

Laos has 136 km of pipeline for transport of petroleum products.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and with Vietnam's decreased ability to provide assistance, Laos has sought to improve relations with its regional neighbors.

Laos ' emergence from international isolation has been marked through improved and expanded relations with other nations such as Australia, France, Japan, Sweden, and India.

* Laos has an embassy in Moscow.

In so doing, Laos has opened the door to rapprochement with Thailand and China at some expense to its special dependence on Vietnam.

Laos might have reached the same point of normalization in following Vietnam's economic and diplomatic change, but by moving ahead resolutely and responding to Thai and Chinese gestures, Laos has broadened its range of donors, trading partners, and investors independent of Vietnam's attempts to accomplish the same goal.

Thus, Vietnam remains in the shadows as a mentor and emergency ally, and the tutelage of Laos has shifted dramatically to development banks and international entrepreneurs.

Burma has a low fertility rate ( 2. 23 in 2011 ), slightly above replacement level, especially as compared to other Southeast Asian countries of similar economic standing, like Cambodia ( 3. 18 ) and Laos ( 4. 41 ), representing a significant decline from 4. 7 in 1983 to 2. 4 in 2001, despite the absence of any national population policy.

Burma also has a low fertility rate, of 2. 07 children per woman ( 2010 ), especially as compared to other Southeast Asian countries of similar economic standing, like Cambodia ( 3. 18 ) and Laos ( 4. 41 ), representing a significant decline from 4. 7 in 1983, despite the absence of a national population policy.

To many a Frenchman -- they came 95 years ago, colonized, and stayed until Laos became independent in 1953 -- the land had been even more delightfully tranquil than Tahiti.

The Laos government said four major Pathet Lao rebel attacks had been launched, heavily supported by troops from Communist North Viet Nam.

" A Siamese military campaign in Laos in 1876 was described by a British observer as having been " transformed into slave-hunting raids on a large scale ".

The Tai branch moved south into Southeast Asia only about a thousand years ago, founding the nations that later became Thailand and Laos in what had been Austro-Asiatic territory.

A minor producer of opium, heroin, and marijuana ; major illicit transit point for heroin en route to the international drug market from Burma and Laos ; eradication efforts have reduced the area of cannabis cultivation and shifted some production to neighboring countries ; opium poppy cultivation has been reduced by eradication efforts ; also a drug money-laundering center ; minor role in amphetamine production for regional consumption ; increasing indigenous abuse of methamphetamines and heroin.

* 1286 – In Laos, King Panya Leng is overthrown in a coup d ' état led by his son Panya Khamphong, which is likely to have been supported by the regionally dominant Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan.

Bongs have been in use by the Hmong, in Laos and Thailand, and all over Africa for centuries.

The Old Mon script, which has been dated to the 6th century, with the earliest inscriptions found in Nakhon Pathom and Saraburi ( in Thailand ), is ancestral to the Burmese script and the Tai Tham script, a liturgical script used in Northern Thailand and Laos.

The Yeti is said to have been spotted in the remote Mae Charim area of the Luang Prabang Range range, between the Thai highlands and Sainyabuli Province, Laos.

The name has also been applied to the Annamite Range ( la Chaîne Annamitique ), a mountain range with a height ranging up to that divides Vietnam and Laos.

This had been accomplished due to the results of elections in May that had brought a right-wing government to power in Laos, its increasing dependence on U. S. military and economic aid, and an increasingly antagonistic attitude toward North Vietnam.

The United States Ambassador to Laos was in a rage that U. S. personnel, in uniform, had been spotted at the remote refueling field in Laos.

It has been reported that Laos was hit by an average of one B-52 bombload every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, between 1964 and 1973.

Some ethnomusicologists believe that Laos is a country where the ancient art music of the Khmer people has been best preserved -- as well as diverse forms of folk music related to the oldest types of Indian music, music that has largely disappeared in India itself.

One key point of proof was missing from the broadcast: the North Vietnamese Army, who had chemical warfare units stationed in southern Laos at the time, made no comment on what would have been a propaganda coup of gigantic proportions.

After 1975 Pathet Lao government of Laos has been accused of committing genocide against that country ’ s Hmong ethnic minority.

* " Once a dialogue has been established, we can discuss how democracy and freedom should be restored in Laos "

It would be useful here to briefly summarise the history of Laos which had been separated into two principalities of Luang Prabang and Vientiane since the beginning of the eighteenth century.

The Phra Bang has long been seen by devout Buddhists as a symbol of the right to rule Laos, as only a commendable and virtuous government deserves to be caretaker of such a sacred image.

By this time Laos had been dragged into the Vietnam War ( Second Indochina War ) between the United States and North Vietnam.