Laos

Summer's heat can be a killer (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

6 Jul 2008

Slieght "Sly" Manivong, a fit 34-year-old, was running a recent 10K charity race when he collapsed. The summer's first blast of extreme heat in the Portland, Ore., area likely contributed to Manivong's death, police said.

Thailand: Australia To Accept 20 Hmong Refugees From Thai Camp Of 8,000: Foreign Minister (Sin Chew Jit Poh)

5 Jul 2008

BANGKOK, THAILAND: Australia will accept 20 ethnic Hmong asylum-seekers from Laos from a group of about 8,000 living in a Thai refugee camp, the Australian foreign minister said.

Australia to accept 20 Hmong refugees from Thai camp of 8,000: foreign minister (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)

5 Jul 2008

Australia will accept 20 ethnic Hmong asylum-seekers from Laos from a group of about 8,000 living in a Thai refugee camp, the Australian foreign minister said.