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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: Politics, Arts, Arts and Culture, Indigenous People, Dalai Lama
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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: Berlin International Film Festival, Will Forte, Festive Events, City Island (movie), Film Festivals
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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: Justice System, Berlin International Film Festival, War Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Military
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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....
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Nobel Prize Awards, U.S. Department of State, New Products
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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... -
Laos to begin building hotly debated Xayaburi dam this week
World NowLaos plans to start building a dam on the Mekong River this week over the objections of Cambodia and Vietnam downstream, a step that neighboring countries fear could imperil fish and cripple rice fields. The Xayaburi dam is expected to reap profits for... -
Israel to build 1,285 housing units over Green Line
World NowIsrael on Tuesday published tenders for the construction of 1,285 new units of Jewish housing in the Jerusalem area and the West Bank settlement of Ariel, all on land seized by Israel during the 1967 Middle East war, according to the anti-settlement group... -
China, U.S., Europe battling over a shrinking global-trade pie
World NowGlobal Focus: In polite, diplomatic language, China this week accused Eurozone leaders of piling up debts that threaten global economic stability and the Europeans countered with complaints that Beijing manipulates its currency to unfairly skew trade in... -
Afghan commission sets presidential election for April 2014
World NowThe Afghan government announced Wednesday that presidential and provincial elections will be held in April 2014 -- a critical step demanded by an international community eager for signs of stability in Afghanistan. The date, April 5, 2014, was hailed as... -
Clinton discloses West's effort to help reshape Syria opposition
World NowThe Obama administration and allies have begun an effort to reshape the Syria opposition to give a bigger role to front-line fighters, a smaller one to exiles, and to exclude entirely Islamic radicals, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.... -
Eurozone unemployment figures hit a new high
World NowEurope’s economic gloom deepened Wednesday on the back of news that unemployment in the 17-nation Eurozone hit another record high in September as the region’s debt crisis continued to sap the confidence of business owners, investors and... -
Myanmar, Laos see large increase in opium cultivation, U.N. says
World NowThe amount of land used to grow opium in Myanmar increased 17% during 2011, the sixth straight annual increase, according to a United Nations report....
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