Thursday 17th May, 2012

• GI Killed in Cambodia Clash Awarded Medal of Honor

  U.S. News & World Report

  A member of the U.S. military holds the Medal of Honor presented by Barack Obama to Rose Mary Sabo-Brown for her late husband, U.S. Army Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr., during a ceremony in the East ...

• Pumping concrete with the Laos Olympic team

  General Sources

  AFP ©

  Laotion athletes Kilakone Siphonexay (L) and Lealy Phoukhavont during a training session at the stadium in the Laotian capital Vientiane on May 4. When it comes to the Olympics, ...

• Dead Tigers Discovered in Thailand Freezer

  IBTimes

  Thailand following a tip-off. The body of a complete Bengal tiger, two halves of another, a panther and a wild cat were found in the freezer. Police Lt Col Theerapat Tharithai said the arrested ...

• Girl in Cambodia killed during violent eviction

  The Seattle Times

  Security forces fatally shot a teenage girl Wednesday during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing ...

• Vietnam widow from Beaver accepts Medal of Honor

  Tribune Review

  Updated 19 minutes ago WASHINGTON -- Leslie Sabo's Vietnam War ended in the flash of his own grenade, hurled at an enemy bunker in Cambodia to save surrounded comrades. Forty-two ...

• LAOS: Aiming to leave least developed country list

  General Sources

  Ensuring everyone benefits from the country's growth will prove a challenge VIENTIANE, 17 May 2012 (IRIN) - The government of Laos has taken the unique step of stating its ambition to graduate ...

• Vietnam, Laos, Thailand To Promote Co-Op Along East-West Economic Corridor

  General Sources

  HANOI, May 17 (Bernama) -- The deputy foreign ministers of Vietnam, Laos and Thailand will meet in Vietnam's central Quang Tri province this Friday to promote cooperation along the East-West ...

• Crown Announces Plans to Construct Aluminum Beverage Can Plant in Cambodia

  AZoM

  Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Crown has planned to construct a new aluminum beverage can manufacturing facility in Sihanoukville, ...

• Figure in China’s Political Drama Found in Cambodia

  New York Times

  Bo Xilai and the investigation of his wife as a murder suspect, the most mysterious figure has been a French architect named Patrick Henri ...

• World Briefing | Asia: Cambodia: Police Officers Kill Girl, 15, in Clash With Villagers Over Land

  New York Times

  Cambodia , in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development. The clash took place when about 400 police officers and soldiers raided a village in Kratie Province ...

• Restricted Rights: Migrant women workers in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia

  bikyamasr

  Women shopping in Malaysia. The story of thousands of migrant women workers is revealed in the new report launched by War on Want and the Asian Migrant Center. The report presents the appalling ...

• Thai, Vietnam men arrested for tiger poaching, smuggling from Malaysia

  bikyamasr

  A tiger in Southeast Asia, alive. BANGKOK: Two men, one Thai and Vietnamese, were arrested on Wednesday after officials discovered they were hiding the bodies of two tigers and two leopards. The ...

• Money-laundering grey list yet to hurt Thailand

  Asia News Network

  They spoke after the Anti-Money -Laundering Office (AMLO) aired concerns that Thailand faces a high risk of being 'blacklisted' by global watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for ...

• Vietnam War heroism posthumously hailed

  Richmond Times-Dispatch

  WASHINGTON -- Leslie Sabo's Vietnam War ended in the flash of his own grenade, hurled at an enemy bunker in Cambodia to save surrounded comrades. Forty years later, and a dozen years after the ...

• Viet Nam objects to China East Sea fishing ban

  Asia News Network

  The Viet Nam Fishing Association yesterday formally objected to China's fishing ban in the East Sea from May 16 to August 1, 2012, which it said includes areas in Vietnamese ...

• Video: Vietnam War soldier's sacrifice honored

  CBS News

  Army specialist Leslie Sabo was killed in 1970 during the Vietnam War sacrificing his own life to take out an enemy bunker. Now, 42 years after his heroic act, President Obama awarded him the Medal ...

• Soldier who died in Vietnam War gets belated honor

  CBS News

  (CBS News) NEW CASTLE, Penn. - In battle, there is no greater act of valor than to lay down your life so others may live. On Wednesday at the White House, a soldier was honored for the sacrifice ...

• Belated honor for Vietnam hero

  CBS News

  (CBS News) NEW CASTLE, Penn. - In battle, there is no greater act of valor than to lay down your life so others may live. On Wednesday at the White House, a soldier was honored for the sacrifice ...

• Judge resigns from UN-backed Cambodia genocide tribunal

  UN News Centre

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of his decision to resign his position. Motoo Noguchi from Japan, an international judge of the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of ...

• President Awards Posthumous Medal of Honor to Vietnam-era Soldier

  Defense Link

  By Karen ParrishAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 – President Barack Obama paid tribute today to a man who died defending his fellow soldiers 42 years and six days ago, and ...

• Obama honours Vietnam War soldier

  BBC

  US President Barack Obama has awarded the Medal of Honor to a Vietnam War soldier, four decades after his original recommendation was lost. Specialist Leslie Sabo was recognised for his bravery ...

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