Central Lao News Today

Katrin Kandel, Volunteer CEO of the Facing the World (FTW), a U.K.-based charity organization that has been operating in Vietnam since 2007 to support children with congenital craniofacial deformities, has talked with the Vietnam News Agency about Ho Chi Minh's thought and his works on the occasion of his 133rd birth anniversary (May 19, 1890).

It takes less than two hours to travel from Luang Prabang to Vientiane by rail for about $40. By road, that same journey would take six or seven hours.