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The Kualao Restaurant compound occupies an area of approximately 2200 square meters in Xiengyeun Village, Chanthabouly District, Vientiane. This location is known as the That Dam Intersection as its namesake, the ‘Black Stupa’, sits at the center of the nearby roundabout. The restaurant itself is housed in a two-story colonial villa.
North Vietnam supported the Pathet Lao to fight against the Kingdom of Laos between 1958 and 1959. Control over Laos allowed for the eventual construction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail that would serve as the main supply route for enhanced NLF (the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong) and NVA (North Vietnamese Army) activities in the Republic of Vietnam.
Track gauge. 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. Operating speed. 150 km/h. The Vientiane–Vũng Áng railway is a proposed 1,435 mm ( 4 ft in) standard gauge railway that ran for 555 kilometres (345 mi) between the capital of Laos, Vientiane, and port in Hà Tĩnh Province via Mụ Giạ Pass on the border between Laos and Vietnam.
Vientiane, Laos. Coordinates. 18°00′24″N 102°38′39″E / . 18.0067°N 102.6443°E. / 18.0067; 102.6443. Type. museum. Kaysone Phomvihane Museum is a memorial named after the first leader of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. [1] It opened on December 13, 1995, and is located in Vientiane .
The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater during the Vietnam War with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers. The fighting also involved the North ...
Xaisomboun ( Lao: ໄຊສົມບູນ) is a mountainous province in central Laos, between Vientiane province and Xiangkhouang province. The province covers an area of 8,300 square kilometres (3,200 sq mi) and had a population of 85,168 in 2015. Xaisomboun town in Anouvong District is the economic centre. There are extensive copper and gold ...
During an attempted robery in the district, a Chinese citizen was shot by the robbers. Lao authorities were then urged by the Embassy of China in Vientiane to arrest the couple who shot him. From 6-7 August 2022, areas of the district faced heavy rain and were subsequently flooded, affecting 25 villages and 839 families.
The Laos National Sports Complex is located about 17 km from the centre of Vientiane City and comprises a 25,000-seat main stadium, a 2,000-seat indoor aquatics complex, with an outdoor warm-up pool, a tennis centre consisting of 2,000 seating capacity centre court plus six other tennis courts, two indoor stadiums each with a seating capacity ...