How to pronounce “laos” in English

I just have to get off this ship so I'm taking some snapshots just walking around the ship.Laos is like Thailand was like 50 years ago.

So we went from Laos to Thailand.And Laos is a kind of third world communist country that has more dirt roads, things were more primitive.But in Thailand, things are much more westernized.

Here's in 1889. The world's fairs in Paris, you know France was the colonial power that ruled Cambodia,and Laos, and Vietnam.Holland ruled Indonesia. Britain ruled Burma.

The 4-minute scene represents about how long, what do you think?.Typically Laos show for instance.Maybe it's a four, five, six minute meal scene.

You may recall terms like the domino theory, the idea that the United States had to intervene in Vietnam, because failure to do so might resultin other countries like Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, being vulnerable to Soviet or Chinese backed aggressionor insurrection. So there's a sense in which geopolitics provides a very vivid, powerful language as well as a kind of visual medium through maps

So this is nothing new.It's that Laos enters into these agreements knowing perfectly well that there's a kind of what I would call a sovereignty bargaining going on.

So this is nothing new.But what Laos has off also discovered is that, and it's true of, I think, a lot of trade agreements, is that they

Now the last kind of experience I wanted to talk to you about, with the unknown, it was in Thailand.So we went from Laos to Thailand.And Laos is a kind of third world communist country that has more dirt roads, things were more primitive.

Can anyone tell me why I'm wearing this mask?Or to Laos, of course.

I just have to get off this ship so I'm taking some snapshots just walking around the ship.This is over in Laos.

Southeast Asia we hope to gain Asylum for them in South Korea we had just illegally crossed the border fromSouthern China into Laos and it had been captured by border patrol soldiers as I stood there with my hands in the air Ithought to myself how in the world did I ever get myself into this it seems like

And his word goes, he's the father in the absence of the father.I'll be like a laos underneath the collar of your tunic.

All right. So you got your hot pan.--laab is the national dish of Laos, actually, along with sticky rice.

There's no difference between iron particles.It's not like this Laos egg versus that Laos egg.So we did what sensible, modern people would do, we googled the size of an iron atom.

So this is nothing new.So I think what you heard in Laos, you're going to hear in many other parts of the world.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?a lot of it originated from Laos.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?I haven't been to Laos.

But that idea really resonated with a lot of people, in particular, young people across the country.And so what started in rural Laos grew to Nicaragua and Guatemala, eventually Ghana.And this was a community that I entered with some of our staff.

They always seem to remember a two-minute sequence from my presentation, where I show a video of the first Pencils of Promise students.Little girls that he met in Laos who had never been in a classroom, had never had a classroom before.He shot a video a 30-second video on a smartphone, inserts into his presentation.

We had conversation for 2 and 1/2 hours, and all of that.So we had of a Laos man who was really the young woman that said, social media is good.

I'm coming back in an hour to see if you've started.The last one is Rene in Laos.

I'm coming back in an hour to see if you've started.He up and moved to Laos knowing zero language, just to make a difference, and thought it would be a great experience.

I'm coming back in an hour to see if you've started.If a little kid in Laos steals our bike, everybody knows it's not his.

We have 3D printers in Laos that are producing literacy tool kits, and then we're using sign language to teach early stage phonetics, which is, in my mind,

I just have to get off this ship so I'm taking some snapshots just walking around the ship.This picture taken out in Laos early one morning, I love the clouds, I love the setting, but if we take the person out of the scene -- this is taken a few minutes

And then we got it down to like sun dust specks and Laos eggs.And you have this many sun dust specks and a Laos egg.This is in spring of 2010 that we're going through translating some of this sutra.

So this is nothing new.I asked only because I spent the last year in Laos, and I was struck by how much of the infrastructure was increasingly owned and run by Chinese.

And so I went to Luang Prabang in Laos, because that's the one town in the world that has more Buddhist monks per square foot

I just have to get off this ship so I'm taking some snapshots just walking around the ship.So anyway, Laos is an incredible place, northern Thailand is an incredible place.

So surely because my family comes from other countries like Vietnam and Laos, when we came to France, when they came to France,

There was a struggle, a civil war in Laos that threatened to engulf all of Southeast Asia.

So my qubit and Axel's qubit, or your qubit, are not the same.And then we got it down to like sun dust specks and Laos eggs.And you have this many sun dust specks and a Laos egg.

So this is nothing new.But remember this, that the Laos government did agreements with China.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?The French came in, colonized Laos, which was also part of Thailand-- like the Isan area, that's part of Laos.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?And now, part of Isan-- that part of Laos is now part-- it's Thailand.

A million more from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fled on their own to refugee camps in Thailand and elsewhere over the next few decades.

She is a Mong refugee whose family were closely allied with American soldiers in Laos.

She's certainly not used to this -- especially when you're talking about the mountains of Laos -- this invading army of hulking white people from America with cameras.That is a weird and terrifying thing to people particularly hill tribe region of Laos.I keep using that as example because that was probably -- I'm trying to think of where we appeared as most shocking apparitions,

thought to myself how in the world did I ever get myself into this it seems likea another world uh when I was there uh in limbo between China and Laos uh AK-47s pointed at me and thinking tomyself how in the world did I ever get to this point you know I used to once have a normal life and uh to answer that

And then from there, now people know that there's difference between Laos and Vietnam and the Philippines and even southern and northern

So this is nothing new.initiative, for example. And Laos would be a really good example of this.

I'm from the east, from Ubon, close to Laos.

She's not used to having other people in the kitchen other than family to start with.She's certainly not used to this -- especially when you're talking about the mountains of Laos -- this invading army of hulking white people from America with cameras.That is a weird and terrifying thing to people particularly hill tribe region of Laos.

Amanda Pressner: Yeah, I-I got a chance to go to Laos which Holly unfortunately was in a different place -- Holly Corbett: I was still in India in the ashram. That was the only time that we split

So this is nothing new.And anxiety and fear, I think, is what you might have seen or felt in Laos.

His parents were born from two distinct Asian cultures.His mother's ancestral village is in Isan, Thailand, and his father in Pakse, Laos.His family arrived in Oakland in '81, again, as a community of refugees after the war.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?Are there other cuisines that you would recommend that are similar to this, other than Thai, Laos, Burmese, maybe?

Pencils of Promise began in 2008.I put $25 into a bank account in hopes of building one school, and that first school was in rural Laos.Over time, what I saw was that not only did I have a personal passion for attempting and really guiding, I think, communities, in particular communities

And he works in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Zambia.