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Indochina Travel is the ultimate Asia travel curator organizing inspired and unique private custom-tailored trips to Japan, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, and Bhutan. In 1993 we founded the first American tour company in Vietnam, organizing tours through our adventure outfit (www.veloasia.com). Since that time, we've provided travelers with authentic, custom-tailored tours in Asia with exceptional activities and encounters for families, photographers, foodies, and others. Our experienced American and in-country tour managers and premier escorts combine expertise and enthusiasm, and ensure your journey will be well planned, carefully managed, of the highest quality, and one of your most memorable. Dine with the Cambodian Ambassador to the U.S. at the historic Foreign Correspondent's Club in Phnom Penh, experience an insider's Tokyo for a private tour of the Mori Museum with a master print maker and protégé of Jaspar Johns, unravel the mysteries of of Vietnamese lacquer art with the country's most celebrated artist, tour culinary capitals with Los Angeles-based Iron Chef Neal Fraser, share lunch in the home of an Intha tribe chief in his home over the waters of Inle lake, delight children with their own hands-on water puppets performance in Hanoi... and many other special experiences for a truly memorable travel experience.

Phongsavanh Bank is one of the most reputed financial institutions in Laos providing the highest levels of international standards of service. This is in response to the needs of the people of Laos since we opened almost three years ago.

Vientiane Times, the first English newspaper in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, officially launched as a weekly tabloid in April 1994. By 1996 the newspaper published twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays, expanding to Monday to Friday in 2004 and adding a Saturday edition in 2007. The newspaper covers a wide range of domestic and international news and provides information reflecting government policy and socio-economic development in the Lao PDR. Vientiane Times is part of the Lao Press in Foreign Languages, a specialised agency of the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism. The press agency is managed by a board of directors and manned by over 60 staff, including reporters and administrative officials. The founders of the newspaper included Mr Somsanouk Mixay, who is also Former Director General and Editor-in-Chief of Lao Press in Foreign Languages, Mr Savankhone Razmountry, who is also former Director General and Editor-in-Chief of the paper, Mr Thongsavath Chansombath the former Director General and Editor-in-Chief of the paper. Director General and Editor-in-Chief of Lao Press in Foreign Languages: Thonglor Duangsavanh Deputy Director General of Lao Press in Foreign Languages and Managing Editor of Vientiane Times: Phonekeo Vorakhoun Deputy Director General of Lao Press in Foreign Languages: Ms Phonesavanh Thikeo