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Lao National Television was established and began broadcasting television programs on December 1, 1983. At that time, the television station carried out pilot broadcasts twice a week, and later gradually increased the broadcast time.
Internet in Laos. The Internet in Laos was first introduced in 1997, with the two commercial ISP services starting in 1999, specifically PlaNet Computers and GlobeNet. These supported a rapid growth of internet cafes across the country to service tourists, which incidentally introduced the internet to many English speaking Lao nationals.
Laos has one of the lowest levels of internet penetration in the world, with just 14 percent of the population using the internet. [8] In 2014, the Lao government adopted an Internet law that it claimed would support the growth of the Internet. [9] However the law included a number of restrictions on social media and other internet ...
Laos is served by a Russian Intersputnik satellite that covers the Indian Ocean region. In 1998 there were 12 AM stations and one FM station. In 1997 there were an estimated 730,000 radios in the country. In 2011 Laos had three television channels. In 2000 there was one Internet service provider, by 2002 serving about 10,000 users.
Inspira Media. Inspira TV (covering Bandung and Jakarta) Jawa Pos Group. Jawa Pos Multimedia. JPM TV (covering Jakarta and Banten) JTV (covering East Java) Jawa Pos TV (covering Java (especially in Surabaya, Madiun, Jakarta, Semarang, Cianjur, and Bandung), and also Bali) STTV. Emtek (through Surya Citra Media)
The Lao people are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia. They primarily speak the Lao language, which belongs to the Kra–Dai language family. Lao people constitute the majority ethnic group of Laos, comprising 53.2% of the country's total population. They are also found in significant numbers in northeastern Thailand, particularly in ...
The Laotian diaspora can be categorized into three categories based on time. The first consists of Laotians who have lived outside Laos before the French colonization of the country. Members of this group live almost exclusively in Thailand, either part of the forced migrations by the Siamese or by modern border definitions, as a result of the ...
Laos is a multi-ethnic country with the politically and culturally dominant Lao people making up approximately 60 percent of the population, mostly in the lowlands. Mon-Khmer groups, the Hmong, and other indigenous hill tribes, accounting for 40 percent of the population, live in the foothills and mountains.