JOURNALIST & EDITOR
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on December 24 2013 4:57 pmVIENTIANE, Laos (MindaNews/24 Dec.) — In a small country where majority are Buddhists, Christmas is definitely not elusive.Back in my home the Philippines, Davao City is already teeming with Christmas decorations....
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on November 22 2013 7:39 pmVIENTIANE, Laos (MindaNews / 22 Nov) – Welcome to “Disneyland”! It is a mosaic of blue, black and white polyester unevenly blended with brown soil surrounded by green shrubs and bushes. It was a gloomy...
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on October 24 2013 5:59 pmPeople swarm into a small village in Vientiane to see the Naga fireballs themselves despite others’ belief that the phenomenon is but a legendVIENTIANE, Laos (MindaNews / 24 Octet) – Somewhere around 7 p.m.,...
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on October 19 2013 11:12 amVIENTIANE, Laos (MindaNews/19 October)–In Ban Sai Fong Neua, 17 kilometers south from the city center, at least 40 women, each holding a wooden oar, trekked down a steep slope into the Mekong River barely...
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on September 7 2013 3:59 pmThrough drawings, photos and role play, children from different provinces met in Vientiane to express their vision for their villages by the time they reach 20.VIENTIANE, Laos (MindaNews / 7 Sept) – Luxon...
VIENTIANE, Laos (MindaNews / 6 Sept) – It’s 5 p.m. here in the prefecture. In Vientiane Times newsroom, journalists take off work one after another, leaving the editors and layout artists to close pages of the paper. A few of them came out of the office’s...
I was walking along the bricked sidewalks at corners Chao Anou Road and Rue Setthathilath in Ventiane, Laos, when I met Hee Su Jung, a 29-year old Korean lady who was completing her 15-day vacation here all by herself.It was an ordinary Tuesday...