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Laos

      Titles Descriptions
  1. Asia Tour: Laos
  2. CIA World Factbook: Laos
  3. East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
  4. Ethnologue Language Database: Laos
  5. Lao Human Rights Council
  6. Laos Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
  7. Library of Congress Country Studies: Laos
  8. Maps of Asia
  9. South East Asian Archive
  10. World Travel Guide: Laos

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Asia Tour: Laos
Maps, photographs, information on Laos and its people, and general tourist information on the country and its regions.
     Author: Diethelm Travel
     Subjects: asian travel and tourism, laos
     DeweyClass: 915.94
     Resource type: promotion
CIA World Factbook: Laos
Basic reference information about Laos, including details of geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co-ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
     Author: CIA
     Subjects: laos
     DeweyClass: 915.94
     Resource type: document
East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
Directory of political, historical, and cultural resources pertaining to the countries of East and Southeast Asia, with essays and reports on topical issues.
     Author: University of Redlands Department of History
     Subjects: asian studies, brunei, burma, cambodia, china, indonesia, japan, laos, malaysia, mongolia, north korea, philippines, singapore, taiwan, thailand, vietnam
     DeweyClass: 959.9
     Resource type: directory
Ethnologue Language Database: Laos
A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Laos, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
     Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
     Subjects: laos
     DeweyClass: 409.594
     Resource type: document
Lao Human Rights Council
Organisation supporting and promoting the human rights and civil rights of the Lao and Hmong people in Laos and Thailand, and opposing forced repatriation of refugees.
     Author: Lao Human Rights Council
     Subjects: cambodia, laos, thailand
     DeweyClass: 323.594
     Resource type: documents
Laos Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Laos. Topics assessed include torture, arbitrary detention or exile, fair public trial, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, movement and religion; democratic rights, worker rights, and discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability, language, or social status.
     Author: US Department of State
     Subjects: laos
     DeweyClass: 323.594
     Resource type: document
Library of Congress Country Studies: Laos
Detailed handbook describing the history of Laos and analysing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Particular attention is given to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, common interests and the issues on which they are divided, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: laos
     DeweyClass: 959.4
     Resource type: documents
Maps of Asia
Set of political and relief maps produced by the CIA covering all the countries in Asia.
     Author: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
     Subjects: afghanistan, bangladesh, bhutan, brunei, burma, cambodia, india, indonesia, japan, laos, malaysia, maps of asia, mongolia, myanmar, nepal, north korea, pakistan, philippines, singapore, south korea, taiwan, thailand, vietnam
     DeweyClass: 912.5
     Resource type: map collection
South East Asian Archive
The Archive collects materials relating to the resettlement of South-east Asian refugees and immigrants in the United States (and to a lesser extent, worldwide), and the culture and history of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. There is a special focus on materials pertaining to South-east Asians in California, and back issues of the Southeast Asian Archive's quarterly newsletter.
     Author: University of California, Irvine
     Subjects: asian studies, cambodia, human migration, laos, vietnam
     DeweyClass: 338.9
     Resource type: documents
World Travel Guide: Laos
Basic reference information about Laos, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
     Author: Columbus Press
     Subjects: laos
     DeweyClass: 915.94
     Resource type: documents