In a Mien (also called Yao or Man) village ... but crime is less frequent in Laos than in many other countries. People often ran after us to give us change when we thought we had paid them ...

In the 1960s my father was one of two people in the world – other ... us back bamboo pan pipes and beautiful Yao embroidered fabrics. I hoped to go to Laos with him but he died before I could ...

Yao has also cooperated with various Chinese ... of daily necessities placed in front of people's homes to sell. Lao people are very kind. They did not bargain. I sold out all the goods within ...

It was a day before I had a chance to meet the leader, the spiritual head of not just this village but of the 7,000 people I was informed are still in the jungle hiding from the Laos army.