LA Weekly: Kulap’s Origin Story, Filmmaker Slays Demons of Her Past.
Kulap Vilaysack and James Syhabout featured on NBC Asian America: A to Z!
Bentonville Film Festival: 10 Feature Films Will World Premiere at BFF. (Our Executive Director, Kulap Vilaysack’s film Origin Story made the list!
For your viewing pleasure:
NBC Asian America Presents: A to Z (2018) (Spoiler: Lao Americans James Syhabout and Kulap Vilaysack were two of the chosen!)
Peep pics from our first monthly meeting: Laos Angeles Deuan Sabaidee aka LADS. Hosted and organized by Laos Angeles Roots members Somlit + Seraphina.
Thip Soulisak designed a beautiful float for Temecula’s Lao New Year Fest!
Motherland News:
Snackboxe Bistro in Doraville shines spotlight on Laotian staple dishes.
Don’t forget to grab your tix for the Lao Food Bowl w/ Laos Angeles Roots member Saengthong Douangdara! (May 19th 4-6pm).
Get Lao’d food truck named one of the 2018 Best Of Fortworth Winners.
Obama’s ‘The Final Year’ which features Laos debuts on HBO on 5/21.
Forbes: By visiting this sanctuary, you can save elephants in Laos.
Merced Sun-Star: Who are Laotians? Merced's Lao educates with 'New Year' celebration for community
3.23.18 - 3.29.18
ATTENTION: 23 and Me is giving out free genetic tests if all four of your grandparents were born in Laos!
The Guardian: Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?
Miya Cech cast in The Darkest Minds directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson.
Phillip from You Offend Me You Offend My Family discusses Asian representation in American film industry and documents Asian Americans at the Los Angeles Gun March: #MarchForOurLives.
Diversity is dominating the 2018 box office.
Pixar's next short film 'Bao' explores an empty-nesting Chinese mother - directed by Domee Shi.
In motherland news:
We are witnessing the motherland developing quicker than ever before.
Nobphalat Sikaiphak crowned Miss Grand Laos 2018
Borneo Bulletin explores the hidden waterfalls in the land of 4,000 islands
Lao government looks to solidify ties with neighboring states and major powers like Russia.
Laos ties with Bangladesh 2-2 in soccer.
Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith wants to make the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party more transparent.
The Rosewood opens second Southeast Asian location in Luang Prabang.
Vanh Sengaphone & Thip Athakhanh open up Snackboxe Bistro in Atlanta.
Laos in the House hosting 3rd Annual Pop Up Dinner in Philly.
Amphone Phetsisouk, definition of a refugee who risked everything to come to America, laid to rest at 63 years old.
Clarkston Community Center hosts first International Spring Festival with Lao culture featured.
Bounlorm Soumetho (family member to many Laos Angeles Roots Members) acknowledged for his leadership in the Lao American Community of Minnesota.
3.16.18 - 3.22.18
Comedian and activist Jenny Yang urges us to remake our culture that is hostile to women - especially women of color
Laos Angeles Roots Fam, Rita Phetmixay is featured in Asian Pacific American Network
#AAPIindustry news: CAPE Board Member, Rina Brannen, is leaving agency life to be the Head of Development at Daniel Dae Kim's company 3AD and Lauren Yee writes compelling Asian play that is to be featured at South Coast Repertory.
Paisley University students partner with VoluntourLaos to help supply clean water for Ban Had Kam Villiage in Laos
Thipsavanh Silaleoon, third-year business student, joins Intercultural Night to perform a mash-up of a traditional Lao dance.
#RepresentationMatters : Meet the Asian George Washington and Actors Defying Asian Stereotypes, Karen Fukuhara has been cast as a series regular Amazon’s straight-to-series superhero drama The Boys, 57 year old Junko Cheng books her first acting role in Taylor Swift's 'Delicate'
ATTENTION: The Poetry Foundation offers scholarships of up to $25,800 each
#LaoFoodMovement : Eater Philadelphia highlights West Philly’s Vientiane Café in their “Adventurous Eats” and new food truck, Lao-Thai Xpress is up and running in Crestview, FL
Both born in Laos -- Mary Nguyen Aregoni has big plans for two food brands Bang Chop Thai Kitchen & Saigon Sisters and Tony Yang shares his experiences coming to the United States
Lao Argentinian family reached out to Little Laos on the Prairie to help find lost family in U.S. Good news, they found!
Laos is changing, the economy of Vientiane, Laos is changing with an influx of Chinese investment and Vang Vieng cleans up and gets first international-class hotel
A Top-Secret U.S. Base On Laos Mountaintop Was Overrun By Elite Vietnamese Commandos 50 years ago
The Lao village of Lahanam flourishes with higher demand for indigo dyed thread
In other motherland news, Laos is offering incentives to Lao expats and requests deportation agreements to be handled case by case when served by the U.S. Government.
Thailand is determined to legalize all 3.8 million foreign migrant workers -- many of Laotian descent, and indicts Laos drug lord, ‘Mr X’ for life
3.9.18 - 3.15.18
Lam Vong Dance to be nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Status.
#ImmigrationMakesAmericaGreat - The Washington Post features Jennifer Mendelsohn, shining a light on the hypocrites and launching ‘resistance genealogy’
#AAPIActors Christine Ko Joins CW’s ‘Dead Inside’ & Vinny Chhibber Joins CBS’ ‘Red Line’
MTV’s Decoded breaks down the common argument of the Model Minority.
Laos Angeles member, Thip Soulisak, creates fundraiser with mission of preserving Lao culture and promoting Lao American community prosperity.
#LaoFoodMovement’s Chef Seng joins Heritage Radio Network’s Episode 31 to spread the Lao food gospel.
Glamour Magazine: Now Trending on TV - The Sexy Asian Hunk
It's #nationalwomensday every day. Laos named best in terms of females in parliament.
PopSugar highlighted a Lao-Cambodian wedding.
For your listening pleasure: Story of brother & sister emigrating from Luang Prabang in 1998 on This is Love Podcast.
Michelin-starred chef, James Syhabout, wants to bring the food of his native Laos to the masses.
Featured on the Columbus Dispatch, Noi and Vongseng Luangraj of Orrville celebrate their 60th anniversary!
New Lao Restaurant Alert: "The Lao Kitchen" in Greensboro!
Singapore’s Augustman Magazine: 5 Things You Should Know About Vientiane and Laos
Farm training proves key to helping reintegrate Lao human trafficking survivors.