1983: Bokeo province split from LouangNamtha (formerly FIPS=LA05); Bolikhamxai province formed from parts of Khammouan (LA04) and Vientiane (LA11) provinces; Xékong province split from Saravan (LA09).
~1976: (Capitals in parentheses.) Name of Houakhong province changed back to LouangNamtha; Borikhan province (Muang Pakxan) merged with Vientiane; Xédôn (Pakxé) and Sithandon (Muang Khong) provinces merged with Champasak (Champasak); Vapikhamthong province (Muang Khôngxédôn) merged with Saravan; Oudômxai province split from Louangphrabang.
project will cover nine impoverished ethnic minority communities living in the mountainous northwestern LouangNamthaprovince, where traditional slash-and-burn shifting cultivation is still being practiced.
The LouangNamtha provincial government is the executing agency for the project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2008.
The target villages are located in the Nam Ha subcatchment straddling Viengphukha - one of the poorest districts in Lao PDR with a poverty incidence rate of 90.3% - and Namtha districts, with combined population of 3,250 villagers.
In the north, the towns of Louangphrabang, Phôngsali, and LouangNamtha were occupied by the Chinese.
The Franco-Laotian guerrillas, with support from Touby Lyfoung's Hmong, had taken control of the main towns of Xiangkhoang Province at the beginning of September.
At the outset of its rule, the authority of the Lao Issara provisional government was extremely limited outside Vientiane.
In 1995, a total of 320 Tai Doi people, in 54 families, inhabited three villages in the Long District of Luang NamthaProvince in northern Laos.
The Tai Doi have lived in Long District of Luang Namtha for at least five generations.
In April, 1994, some 19 Tai Doi families reportedly left the Muang Kham Village with all their possessions, and walked two days to join themselves with Lu and Tai Dam villages.169 The Tai Doi live in mixed villages with the Lu and the Akha.
