Case Study : Lao People 's Democratic Republic

Caitlin Nguyen February 10, 2015 Block - 8 Cause-and-Effect Essay Thunderous clamor erupted between a domineering, communistic state and a placid, democratic country. Infatuated with the idea of dominance, North Vietnam was

The Republic of Union of Myanmar, but formally known as Burma, is the largest country in mainland South-East Asia by area. It borders with China to the east and India to the north. It stands exactly midway between Delhi and Bombay and Shanghai and Hong Kong. It is the missing

In 1950, the Lao Resistant Government was established. The government named its state “Pathet Lao”; however, the state didn’t have its own territory and was protected by the DRV. The Geneva agreement of 1954 gave the PL two provinces, Samnua and Phonsaly, as the “Assembly Area”. In the internationally recognized base, the PL tried to establish the one-party system of Lao People’s

Cambodia, a southeastern Asian country, was under the rule of prince Norodom Sihanouk since its independence from France in 1953. Cambodians lived in prosperity, and were self-sufficient under a “Buddhist socialist” government, but this peace was interrupted by the Vietnamese war (1955-1975) in its neighbor country. Although the prince tried to keep his people unaware of the war, by 1969 the United

Laos has been receiving help from China, Vietnam and Thailand for political and investment reasonings. In an interview, Keith Barney, who

The history of recent years in the Indochina conflict has been an eventful one. It will exhibit to the eyes of the future student some of the most remarkable instances of a ruthlessness and indifference to common humanity. Moreover, it will, I believe, demonstrate that North Vietnam has, for a long time, steadily pursued a communist regime which was deliberately designed to produce a subjugation of other countries by the threat of communism.

Laos People’s Democratic Republic is a country in the Southeastern portion Asia. It is believed that Laotians migrated to Laos from South China as early as the 8th century. Lan Xang was the very first state established in the country during the 14th century. The ruler at the time, King Saya Setthathirat transferred the capital known as Luang Prabang to the newly formed Vientiane during the 16th century (“Brief History of Laos”). The Lan Xang kingdom was in decree until the early 1700s. From that point on, the Kingdom was split into 3 separate kingdoms under 3 different yet hostile dynasties. The 17th Century marked the Golden Age under the rule of King Suliyavongsa. It was during this time that the king established a good trade relation

Through Ara Wilson’s detailing of her exploration of Bangkok in her ethnography “The Intimate Economies of Bangkok”, I was able to become an observer of the meshing of the native culture that already existed in Bangkok with the Western culture that has been spreading into the nation for many years.

Introduction War or conflict is a part of the mankind’s world. Although nobody likes war but it still exists as a certain fact with various appearances and characters. In the 21st century, the phantom of the war and terrorism become a truly threaten to international community. In Vietnam, there is no terrorism or religious war. Frankly, Vietnam does not have to deal with this complicated issues. However, Vietnam is facing to many unforeseen risks that directly threaten against the security and national defense as well stability and development of Vietnam. One of that unforeseen risks is potential war between Vietnam and China. The Sun Tzu

Since the end of the Cold War, the government of Lao PDR (GoL) promoted internal resettlement of indigenous ethnic minorities from remote highlands to lowland areas and along roads as an effort to make the delivery of government services such as health care and education more cost efficient. Though the government considers resettlement a voluntary choice on the part of the village, the government implements incentives for villages to resettle such as healthcare and disincentives for villages to remain in the highland such as destruction of agriculture as an attempt to encourage resettlement. But, internal resettlement had a devastating impact on the health of the relocated minorities and the healthcare promised by the government was inadequate and in some places nonexistent. To promote rural development, the Lao PDR government incentivized the resettlement of ethnic minorities from the mountainous highlands to the lowlands as a way of improving the minority’s access to health care, but suppressed immune systems suppressed from malnutrition and exposure to malaria ultimately increased mortality among those who resettled.

c) Economic Economic of Viet Nam develops rapidly from 2009 to 2010. According to General Statistic Office, GDP in 2009 is $1000/people and it will be increase 6.5% [16].

The country that I have chosen to do research in is Vietnam. Vietnam was considered one of the poorest countries until just recently it has been transformed in a lower middle-income country because of changing from a centrally planned economy into a more market-oriented economy through the use of the

Written Assignment: Unit 2 IMF Intervention in Thailand Clinton MacKillop University of the People Written Assignment: Unit 2 IMF Intervention in Thailand Clinton MacKillop Introduction During the late 1990s, the world, especially Asia, faced economic crisis. In May, 1997, Thailand was hit especially hard. Due to multiple factors, foreign investors decided to pull their money out of the Thai economy causing the Thai government to eventually devalue their currency (Laplamwanit, 1999). This paper is not focused on what caused the crisis; rather, it examines the actions the International Monetary Fund (IMF) took in attempting to help Thailand recover from its disaster as well as the unfortunate consequences of doing so.

The symbolic-interactionist approach might look at the same scenario and derive a different answer for the presence of UXOs in Laos. This approach might focus less on the inequalities (monetary discrepancies) of Laos and the United States and rather, focus on the interactions of these global entities. The symbolic-interactionist approach is a micro-level analysis of situations; it provides a “close-up focus on social interactions” (Macionis, 2009, p. 15). This approach might see the war as a result of the symbols that people have used for centuries in each participating country. The usage of these symbols and the meanings attached to each would be less familiar to the opposing sides. The war, then, might be a result of misunderstandings rather than severe social inequalities. Even the casualties that have resulted from the presence of UXOs in Laos might be reduced to misunderstanding of symbols – not knowing what a landmine or cluster bomb is – and a result of symbolic interactions – inadvertantly stepping on one or picking it up resulting in an explosion.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed by Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand in 1967. Today, it consists of 10- member states with the addition Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The region now moves forward for deeper integration of creating one community in terms of political-