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	Actionaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lai Chau is a mountainous province in the northwest of Vietnam.
		Twelve percent of the Lai Chau population live in urban areas, while the remainder live in rural areas.
		Dien Bien Phu township and Dien Bien district are adjacent in the south of Lai Chau province.
	www.actionaid.org /vietnam/1016.html (357 words)

	Doctors leaving remote provinces
		LAI CHAU— Healthcare professionals in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau say meagre salaries and backward practices are leading them to seek other employment.
		Though a recent report by the Lai Chau Health Department found 85 per cent of hamlets and villages in the province have staffed clinics, the report failed to mention how many of the employees at those clinics were planning to quit.
		In Lai Chau Province, a doctor must promise that a treatment or surgery will be successful or they cannot perform it.
	vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn /2004-10/18/Stories/11.htm (637 words)

	Project number 10 : Muong Muonirrigation project
		Lai Chau Province: area 17,333 km2, population 562,000, provincial capital: Lai Chau Town.
		Muong Muon Commune lies in Muong Lay District in the western part of the province close to the border with Laos.
		We discussed the proposed project with the provincial authorities during a visit to Lai Chau Province in August 1999.
	www.microprojects-vietnam.org /report.asp?idx=10 (714 words)

	lai Chau Information - Vietnam Travel, KIMTOURS
		Its provincial capital - Lai Chau - is situated in a valley near the junction of Nam Ron River and Da River.
		Lai Chau province is inhabited by up to 23 ethnic groups, most notably the Thai and the H'mong The most attractive
		Dien Bien Phu lies in Muong Thanh Valley and is surrounded by steep, heavily forested hills and mountains.
	www.kimtours.net /english_info/laichau.htm (329 words)

	Moc Chau hotel, Son La, Vietnam Hotels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Moc Chau Hotel is Situated at the Center of Son La Town, Lai Chau Province.
		Lai Chau is located in the center to the northwest Province of Vietnam and shares borders with China, Laos, and Lao Cai and Son La. The population mainly consists of the Thai, Si La, and La Chi minority groups.
		Lai Chau’s historical vestiges are known worldwide as the site of the victory of Dien Bien Phu by the Vietnamese Army over the French in 1954.
	www.vietnamhotelsbooking.com /sonla-mocchau/index.htm (190 words)

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		Lai Chu and other mountainous provinces in northern Vietnam have a long history of opium cultivation and use.
		Lai Chau is one of the provinces with the highest number of drug addicts and ranks third overall after Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.
		Drug abusers in Lai Chau have spent huge amounts of money on drugs, not including the cost of long term damage to their health.
	www.unodc.org /vietnam/en/lai-chau_2001-12-31_1.html?print=yes (1574 words)

	Asia Times -
		Son La Province is reinventing itself as a region with a strong industrial focus, as land-clearing commences for the power plant, explained the Deputy Prime Minister last week.
		Lai Chau also plans to erect new residential precincts for displaced people, capable of housing between 1,000 and 2,500 families each.
		The Son La dam is designed to provide irrigation for lowland farming in the dry season, and prevent flooding in the rainy season, with an average water level of 205 to 215 meters.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EH27Ae01.html (700 words)

	Project number 9 : Muong Luanirrigation project
		The province is home to 23 ethnic groups, especially Thai and Hmong.
		Muong Luan Commune is located in Dien Bien District, which lies in the southern part of Lai Chau province some 100 km from the town of Dien Bien Phu.
		We discussed the proposed project with the provincial authorities during a preliminary visit to Lai Chau Province in August 1999.
	www.microprojects-vietnam.org /report.asp?idx=9 (525 words)

	FaithNews Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LAI CHAU, Vietnam (EP) Â— Members of VietnamÂ’s Hmong Christian population have faced shocking, violent attacks during the last six months that include torture, rape and demoralization.
		Chau was severely beaten and is charged with Â“interfering with an officer doing his duty,Â” a charge frequently used against religious people to avoid the appearance of religious persecution.
		Another report describes the general situation in Lai Chau where police have installed themselves within ChristiansÂ’ homes to report on their every move.
	www.faithnews.cc /articles.cfm?sid=3295 (466 words)

	Vietnam
		Officials in Lao Cai Province acknowledged the presence of Protestants, and said that, in keeping with Hanoi's instruction, they were seeking to open a dialogue with the Protestants on ways they could appropriately practice their religion.
		In Gia Lai Province, the SECV was permitted to open a Bible training school for unrecognized preachers, which will potentially lead to a rapid expansion in the number of new pastors in that province.
		Hmong Protestant leader Mua A Chau, who had been detained in Lai Chau Province in March 2003 and sentenced to 36 months in prison for "resisting a person carrying out official duties" after an altercation with police officers, was also amnestied in May 2005.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51535.htm (11851 words)

	Center for Religious Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The allegations of torture follow a pattern of reports of an anti-Christian wave of persecution underway in Lai Chau Province.
		The Center reported in April and December of last year that police and soldiers are sent to villages to monitor and harass Christians and to pressure them to sign statements recanting their faith and pledging to re-establish ancestor worship.
		But now, the authorities in Lai Chau Province told the authorities in Son La Province to persecute us, and force us to go back to worship the ancestors.
	www.freedomhouse.org /religion/news/bn2004/bn-2004-03-15.htm (1238 words)

	Vietnam Travel Guide - An Giang Province (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lai Chau, the northwestern most province in North Vietnam borders on Chi Na and Laos.
		The capital of the province, the town of the same name, Lai Chau, is situated in a valley near the junction of the Nam Ron River and the Da River.
		Lai Chau province is populated by up to 23 ethnic groups, most notably the Thai and the H'Mong.
	www.vietnam.sawadee.com.cob-web.org:8888 /laichau/index.htm (102 words)

	THE SILENCING OF DISSENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On October 30, 1987 he was convicted, along with twenty-two others, of security offenses, including "conducting propaganda to oppose the socialist regime and undermining the policy of unity and the disruption of public security." He was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment and is now suffering from mental problems.
		A member of the Movement for a Free Vietnam, he was arrested on July 3, 1977 and charged with "conspiring to overthrow the government." In 1978 he was sentenced to life imprisonment, which was reduced to twenty years' in 1994.
		Sentenced to eight years'imprisonment in a trial in An Giang province on September 8, 1999 for attempting to overthrow the government.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2000/vietnam/Viet004-06.htm (2720 words)

	Lai Chau travel guide with guesthouse and hotel reviews
		The scenery between Muong Lay and Phong Tho is some of the most spectacular scenery you can see in the Far Northwest of Vietnam.
		Towns like Lai Chau have been relocated further up the river and the small townships that they replace have swapped names.
		Below are some of the main destinations you'll find within Lai Chau province, along with detailed information on guesthouses and hotels, restaurants and bars, activities and much more.
	www.travelfish.org /province/vietnam/northwest_vietnam/lai_chau (422 words)

	Nhan Dan --- News
		Prime Minister Phan Van Khai on December 3 urged the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau to cut by half its poverty rate from the current 61% to 30% by 2010.
		The Government leader visited Lai Chau, one of the three provinces, where the largest hydro-power plant in Southeast Asia started its construction on December 2.
		He pledged to seriously consider the province's proposal for quadrupling the State investment in forest development for border villages to VND 200,000 per hectare.
	www.nhandan.com.vn /english/news/051205/domestic_pm.htm (228 words)

	Twenty killed as bus and motorbike collide in Vietnam. 16/05/2005. ABC News Online
		Twenty people were killed when a bus collided with a motorcycle and plunged 150 metres down a ravine in northern Vietnam's Lai Chau province, local police said.
		Mr Chau says among the dead were at least six women, the bus driver and the motorcycle rider.
		The bus, travelling from Lai Chau to the neighbouring province of Lao Cai, was carrying 21 people.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200505/s1369549.htm (305 words)

	Vietnam Package Tour - Northern Adventure, 7 days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		TUAN GIAO: a remote town at the junction of Highway 42 to Dien Bien Phu and Highway 6A to Lai Chau.
		PHA DIN PASS: located in Lai Chau Province (985 m above sea level), this area is mainly inhabited by white and fl Thai and Hmoung (Meo).
		Mountainous journey in Lai Chau Province past Ban Cheng Nuo and Phong Tho.
	www.traveller2000.com /package_tours/vietnam/private_basis/VN-S-07.htm (462 words)

	Vietnam Provinces
		One exception is Lai Chau province, whose capital definitely moved.
		The only change to Vietnamese provinces is a spelling correction, changing "thanh po" to "thanh pho" in the formal name of Ho Chi Minh.
		According to it, as of 2004-12-31, Vietnam was divided at the secondary level into 25 cities under provinces, 42 urban districts, 536 rural districts, and 59 towns; at the tertiary level into 1,181 precincts, 583 towns under districts, and 9,012 communes.
	www.statoids.com /uvn.html (1428 words)

	Moc Chau Hotel, Vietnam Hotels
		oc Chau Hotel is Situated at the Center of Son La Town, Lai Chau Province.
		ai Chau is located in the center to the northwest Province of Vietnam and shares borders with China, Laos, and Lao Cai and Son La. The population mainly consists of the Thai, Si La, and La Chi minority groups.
		ai Chau’s historical vestiges are known worldwide as the site of the victory of Dien Bien Phu by the Vietnamese Army over the French in 1954.
	www.vietnamhotels.biz /mocchau/index.htm (168 words)

	Lai Chau Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lai Chau (Vietnamese: Lai Châu) is a province in northwest Vietnam.
		Communes: Muong Lay district, Le Loi quarter of Lai Châu Town, Than Uyen.
		This page was last modified 02:25, 1 May 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Lai_Chau_Province (115 words)

	Vietnam - Country and People - Commnunity of 54 Nationalities - The Ha Nhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The women of Lai Chau have a decorated dress in raw colours, different from the dress of Lao Cai women which is in indigo colour only.
		The bride comes to live with her husband's family and take the family name of the husband according to custom of the Ha Nhi in Lai Chau province.
		Particularly, a wedding song of the Ha Nhi in Muong Te district of Lai Chau province is composed by 400 verses.
	www.vnnews.com /coci/0104/19.htm (555 words)

	Vietnam vacations destinations: Son la province, Vietnam holidays, Vietnam travel destinations, maps, weather, tours ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Son La, the fifth largest province in the country, is located to the northwestern region of Vietnam.
		Eighty percent of the provinceâs natural area is covered with mountains.
		The province is populated by various ethnic groups, including the Ma, Hâmong, Dao, Muong, Kinh, Khmer, Tay, Thai, and so on.
	www.footprintsvietnam.com.cob-web.org:8888 /destination_son_la.htm (317 words)

	UNICEF - Base de datos de evaluación -
		In December 1997, UNICEF and the Committee for Ethnic Minorities in Mountainous Areas (CEMMA) established the Linking Bank Credit Model (LBCM), in partnership with the Vietnam Bank for the Poor (YBP) and the Lai Chau Women's Union (\VU), in 9 communes and 4 districts in Lai Chau province.
		After two and a half years of operation an evaluation of the LBCM is being undertaken to learn about the impact on the lives of women, their children and families in the 8 of the 9 pilot communes.
		The evaluation was undertaken in 8 communes and 4 districts (Dien Bien Dong, Muong Te, Tua Chua and Tuan Giao) in Lai Chau province.
	www.unicef.org /spanish/evaldatabase/index_14345.html (1010 words)

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		The photos was taken along the road from Moc Chau to Son La in Son La Province quite close to Mai Chau district in Hoa Binh province.
		A gallery of photos taken in the north west of Vietnam in Son La and Lai Chau provinces especially in and around the town of Dien Bien Phu during a journey in October 1995.
		The baby carrier featured was collected in Sa Pa, Lao Cai Province in northern Vietnam during a journey in 1995 when the photos of the Black Hmong mother, grandfather and their babies were also taken in and around Sa Pa. See also Black Hmong photogallery.
	www.tribaltextiles.info /Diaries/Vietnam95_Diary.htm (3673 words)

	Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Freedom House recounted that sources in Vietnam reported that 19 police agents destroyed Hmong Christian house churches in mid-December in four villages in Ta Tong Commune, located in the Muong Te District of Lai Chau Province.
		Freedom House also received reports that high-level authorities in Vietnam's northwest Lai Chau Province are openly threatening to "kill all Christian leaders." Vietnam's Hmong Christians have long experienced official persecution because of their faith.
		Over the last six years, according to Freedom House, at least 15,000 Hmong Christians have fled Vietnam's northwest provinces to the country's Central Highlands, which afforded some protection until an uprising by ethnic Montagnards in February 2001 led to a harsh government crackdown in the area.
	www.pastors.com /article.asp?ArtID=5608 (583 words)

	VietShare - Viet Nam Que Huong Lai Chau Men Yeu - VietNam / Vietnamese Beloved Homeland (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lai Châu là tỉnh ở phía cực Tây và rộng nhất miền Bắc nước ta, với diện tích 19.800 cây số vuông, hầu hết là rừng núi với địa thế phức tạp hiểm trở, bao gồm những thung lũng dọc theo sông Đà (Hắc Giang) và các chi lưu của sông này.
		Lai Châu còn có những suối nước nóng ở Ngọc Chén, Bản Ni, Bản Ni Hà.
		Khí hậu thung lũng Lai Châu rất ấm áp và nóng vào mùa Hè, tương đối tốt ở vùng cao nguyên nhưng rất lạnh trên vùng núi cao vào mùa Đông.
	www.vietshare.com.cob-web.org:8888 /quehuong/laichau.asp (399 words)

	Northwest tours travel vietnam, North West loops 4WD jeep in moutainouss area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Among the villages you will pass by during this trip, Mai Chau is the closest place where you can meet the hill tribal people, though, due to the ease to reach the nearest town of Hoa Binh, the village is gradually losing its primitive characters.
		Being the last battlefield of the French during their war with the Vietnamese, which ended with the fall of the French colonial control in Indochina and the replacement of the US Army not so long, Dien Bien Phu now returned to be a green valley inhabited by dozens of the ethnic groups.
		You should known that soon before 2010, the nice valley of Lai Chau will be underwater in a construction plan of the biggest hydropower station in Southeast Asia.
	www.vietnamadventurer.com /northwest-loops.htm (1437 words)

	FREEDOM URGED FOR HMONG CHRISTIAN PRISONERS IN VIETNAM
		The Center’s appeal focuses particularly on ten “forgotten” Christians, whose names are little known outside their home communities in northwest Vietnam’s Lai Chau and Ha Giang Provinces.
		Another prisoner is Mua Say So, the brother of Mua Bua Senh who was beaten to death by provincial and district public security police in Lai Chau Province in August 2002, as reported by the Center at that time.
		Instead, they use the term “illegal religion.” The Hmong in these provinces converted to Christianity after 1954 when French rule ended and Communist forces under Ho Chi Minh took control of the North.
	www.vietnamhumanrights.net /website/fh_40604.htm (539 words)

	Beyond the Clouds -- ThingsAsian Article
		Almost as soon as I crossed the pass and had begun to enjoy the descent into Lai Chau Province, the clouds dispersed and I found myself riding into blinding sunshine and searing heat.
		On the other Lai Chau is one of the warmest and was experiencing the full force of mainland Southeast Asia's dry season.
		But out on the quiet roads of remote Lai Chau Province, I was surprised to see groups of Dzao and Hmong women tilling the fields in full dress.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/tell_story.1383.html (1292 words)

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