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Known as the Plain of Jars, this UNESCO World Heritage site features thousands of massive, tubular-shaped stone vessels scattered across the Xieng Khouang plateau, some standing up to three meters ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » People: How Deadly Weapons Continue to Rule Daily Life
At the Vienthong primary school in Laos’ Xieng Khouang province, six students take out hand puppets made from clothing scraps and colored felt. Their audience — a class of around 15 children ages 3 to ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » People: Giant jars, ancient bells, buried bones and a mystery that endures
Helping to preserve artifacts, some potentially 2,000 years old, was an irresistible privilege. Since 2016, an Australian-Lao team led by Louise Shewan, Dougald O'Reilly and Thonglith Luangkhoth has ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » People: Transforming bombs into spoons 50 years after secret CIA war in Laos
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English teacher Somchit Pouangsavat has been moulding spoons, bottle openers and key rings from various weapon parts found in the ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » People: Laos still paying the price of Vietnam war
XIENG KHOUANG, Laos (Reuters) - Imagine growing up in a country where the equivalent of a B52 planeload of cluster bombs was dropped every eight minutes for nine years. Then imagine seeing your ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » People: New findings in the Plain of Jars of Laos, the megalithic structures that still nobody knows when or by whom they were created
Since 2016 an archaeological team made up of researchers from Australia and Laos, led by Louise Shewan, Dougald O’Reilly and Thonglith Luangkhoth, has developed a research project in the so-called ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » People: From Laos to Gaza to Ukraine, we must confront the war beneath our feet
This September marks 80 years since the end of World War II. Even at that distance, we are still feeling its legacy. In August, authorities discovered a 250-kg World War II bomb during construction in ...