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Alison Wright, photographer, chases faces, grace
Alison Wright got her first camera at age 10, a Kodak Instamatic. Then she learned there was such a thing as a photojournalist, a person who traveled the world taking pictures. So that was that. She had a career – a career that would eventually...Tags: Arts and Culture, China Earthquake (2010), Interior Policy, Dalai Lama, Photography
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READER SUBMITTED: Avon Native Wins Fulbright Award
AvonAvon native Brendan Walsh, a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Southern Connecticut State University, has been selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2013-2014 to Laos, where he will teach English at Ventiane...Tags: Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), Arts and Culture, Students, Southern Connecticut State University, Poetry
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Tribeca Audience Awards Go to 'The Rocket,' 'Bridegroom'
ReutersApr 28 (TheWrap.com) - The Laos-set drama "The Rocket" and the documentary about same-sex unions "Bridegroom" have won the top audience awards at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tribeca's Heineken Audience Awards carry $25,000 cash prizes, which were given...Tags: Festive Events, Film Festivals, Entertainment Events, Justice System, Tribeca
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Tribeca 2013: 'Rocket,' 'Bridegroom' win fest's audience prizes
NEW YORK -- Kim Mordaunt’s Laos-set tale “The Rocket” continued its stratospheric ride through the festival universe Saturday, picking up the audience award in the narrative category at the Tribeca Film Festival after previously...
Tags: Festive Events, Film Festivals, Will Forte, Tribeca, City Island (movie)
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Apr. 26 in History: Luis Soto Juarez, 51, convicted of killing one California Highway patrol officer
>> 50 Years Ago — EL CENTRO — “Laos is lost … down the drain,” Virgil Pinkley, editor and publisher of the Post and Press Newspapers, told members of the El Centro Rotary Club yesterday. He called for a drive, starting in...Tags: Highway Transportation, U.S. Border Patrol
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Tribeca 2013: 'The Rocket,' 'Kill Team' among fest's top winners
NEW YORK -- A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night. "The Rocket," the...
Tags: Festive Events, Film Festivals, Justice System, Tribeca, Paul Haggis
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Southeast Asia's 2015 unity dream collides with reality
ReutersBy Stuart Grudgings BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei, April 26 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian nations have quietly begun to row back on a deadline of forming an "economic community" by 2015, confirming what many economists and diplomats have suspected for...Tags: Cambodia, Malaysia, Business, Brunei, Asia
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U.S. Customs dog sniffs out opium in boxes of 'traditional medicine'
A drug-sniffing dog helped federal officers find more than 30 pounds of opium-soaked cloth and wood chips in four packages from Laos Monday, according to U.S. Customs officials. The dog, Shadow, an 8-year-old Belgian Malinois with U.S. Customs and...
Tags: O'Hare International Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Take me to the River
John Kunkel is no ordinary restaurateur. He built Lime Fresh Mexican Grill from a stand-alone spot in South Beach to a small chain that last year he sold to Applebee's for a reported $24 million. In 2011, he opened Yardbird Southern Table and Bar, where...
Tags: Jeff McInnis, Onions, Pasta, Foods and Beverages, Dining and Drinking
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Childbirth Educator Brings Clean Births To Laos
Laos is a small southeastern Asian country, situated near Burma and Thailand. An extremely long flight and a lot of passion recently brought a New Haven mom to this beautiful land filled with smiling, happy people who don't have enough clothes or clean...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Travel, Health Organizations, Trips and Vacations, Health and Medical Professionals
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Suspicions swirl over disappearance of activist in Laos
Behind the wheel of her car, Ng Shui Meng last saw her husband in the jeep behind her, following her home for dinner on a Saturday night, she told human rights groups. She lost sight of him somewhere near a police outpost. She came home. He did not....
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South African court sentences rhino horn smuggler to 40 years
World NowSouth African court sentences foreign rhino horn smuggler to 40 years jail: A South African court Friday sentenced Thai national, Chumlong Lemtongthai, to 40 years jail for his part in a Laos-based rhino smuggling syndicate which managed to take dozens of...
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