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The Phuan people (), ພວນ Phouan, pronounced), also known as Tai Phuan, Thai Puan (Lao: ໄຕພວນ, ໄທພວນ Thai: ไทพวน) or Lao Phuan (Lao: ລາວພວນ), are a Theravada Buddhist Tai people spread out in small pockets over most of Thailand's Isan region with other groups scattered throughout central Thailand and Laos (Xiangkhouang Province and parts of Houaphan).
ANTV (People's Police Television), VOV TV (Voice of Vietnam), Quốc Hội TV (National Assembly Television), QPVN (Vietnam National Defence Television), TTXVN (Vietnam News Agency), Nhân Dân TV (Nhân Dân Television) Ho Chi Minh City TV – The first TV station in Vietnam, includes 8 free-to-air channels: HTV7 (HD/SD) - Entertainment and Sports
The Tai Dam ( Tai Dam: ꪼꪕ ꪒꪾ, Lao: ໄຕດຳ, Thai: ไทดำ) are an ethnic minority predominantly from China, northwest Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. They are part of the Tai peoples and ethnically similar to the Thai from Thailand, the Lao from Laos and the Shan from Shan State, Myanmar. Tai Dam means "Black Tai". This name comes ...
The Lao people are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia, who speak the Lao language of the Kra–Dai languages. They are the majority ethnic group of Laos, making up 53.2% of the total population. The majority of Lao people adhere to Theravada Buddhism. They are closely related to other Tai people, especially (or synonymous) with the ...
Thailand. Laos and Thailand have had bilateral relations since the time of their precursor Lan Xang and Ayutthaya kingdoms in the 15th century. The two countries share a border and express linguistic and cultural similarities. The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang included all of northeastern Thailand as recently as the early 18th century. [1]
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]
Thailand: 147 soldiers killed. 166 wounded [1] 2 aircraft (February) [2] The Thai–Lao Border War, or known in Thai as Battle of Ban Romklao ( Thai: สมรภูมิบ้านร่มเกล้า or ยุทธการบ้านร่มเกล้า; December 1987 – February 1988), was a short confrontation between Thai and ...
A plaque in Laos, in Lao and English, commemorating the First Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge. Opened on 8 April 1994, it was the first bridge across the lower Mekong, and the second on the full course of the Mekong. [citation needed] The cost was about A$42 million, funded by the Government of Australia as development aid for Laos. [1] [2]