Three children, Noi, Prany and Alisak, contemplate their future in a half-destroyed house that has been converted into a makeshift field hospital in war-torn Laos at the end of the 1960s.

He was captured in 1974 by a communist political group that came to power after the Laotian civil war. Seme escaped from the "re-education camp" in 1976 with two of his imprisoned friends.

Just nine months after the 14-nation Geneva Conference guaranteed Laotian neutrality, Laos last week tottered on the brink of civil war and once again threatened to drag the major powers into a ...

Out of her classmates at the high school in Khongsedone, Laos, Kurfman was the only one left behind. In that moment, she knew civil war had come to her Southeast Asian country.