Syracuse nurse to return to Laos, where she lost mom, siblings when escape boat sank (The Post-Standard)

Posted on July 18th, 2009 by Laos News

Source: Yahoo News Syracuse, NY — Vonn Lee was 12 years old in 1975 when she watched her mother, oldest sister and two younger brothers drown in Asia’s Mekong River during their escape from Laos at the end of the Vietnam War.

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UN breeding barn owls to stamp out crop-eating rodents in Laos

Posted on July 18th, 2009 by Laos News

Source: Big News Network The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is breeding barn owls under an innovative new programme that hopes to deter rodents from attacking crops in northern Laos. Rats in Laos turn…

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