Vietnam: Laos awards orders, medals to Vietnamese journalists.

(From Thai Press Reports)

Section: Regional News - Laos awarded the Issara (Freedom) Order, the Labour Order and the Labour Medal to 46 staff members of Vietnam's Nhan Dan (People) Daily in recognition of their contributions to Laos's national liberation, defence and development struggle as well as to the Lao party's newspaper, the Pasason.

At the award presenting ceremony in Hanoi on Feb. 26, Lao Minister of Information and and Culture Mounkeo Oraboun expressed his gratitude to the Nhan Dan newspaper which has since 1983, sent many experts to Laos to help their colleagues at the Pasason improve their …