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On September 2, 2015, Lao National Television signed a cooperation agreement with Vietnam Television, and Lao National Television started producing and broadcasting Vietnamese-language news programs. In September 2019, with the aid of the People's Republic of China, LNTV Channel 3 was upgraded from standard definition to high definition.
Refugees began arriving in the U.S. after a Communist government came to power in Laos in 1975 and by 1980, the Laotian population of the U.S. reached 47,683, according to census estimates. The numbers increased dramatically during the 1980s so the census estimated that there were 147,375 people by 1990. The group continued to grow, somewhat ...
Religion in Laos ( Pew Research Center 2015) [1] Theravada Buddhism (66.0%) Tai folk religion (30.7%) Christianity (1.5%) other religions/not stated (1.8%) Theravada Buddhism is the largest and dominant religion in Laos. Theravada Buddhism is central to Lao cultural identity. The national symbol of Laos is the That Luang stupa, a stupa with a ...
Wildlife of Laos. An Indochinese tiger. The wildlife of Laos encompasses the animals and plants found in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, a landlocked country in southeastern Asia. Part of the country is mountainous and much of it is still clad in tropical broadleaf forest. It has a great variety of animal and plant species.
LA. Internet TLD. .la. Laos, [e] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao PDR or LPDR ), [f] is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. [12]
In Southeast Asia, traditional Lao culture is considered one of the Indic cultures (along with Burma, Thailand and Cambodia ). Laos is geographically isolated and mountainous, bounded by the Annamite Range in the east, forming a traditional political and cultural boundary with Vietnam (a more Chinese influenced Sinitic culture ).
Lao National Radio (officially abbreviated as LNR, ... Vithanyou Kachaysiang Heng Xat Lao) is the national radio station for the country of Laos. It was founded on 13 ...
Phankham Viphavanh. Phankham Viphavanh ( Lao: ພັນຄຳ ວິພາວັນ; born 14 April 1951 [citation needed]) is a Laotian politician, a member of the Politburo and the Executive Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. He became the Prime Minister of Laos, who was elected by the National Assembly of Laos in March 2021. [1]