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Laos has secured its first medal at the 33rd Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok after athletes Koungking Boudaxay and Mala Chanthalaksa won a joint bronze in the women’s Ju-Jitsu Duo Show on 10 December.
The pair impressed judges with a score of 41 points, earning them a place on the podium alongside Vietnam, who also took bronze.
Host nation Thailand dominated the event, capturing both gold and silver with scores of 50.5 and 48.5 points respectively.
Laos will send a total delegation of 164 members, including 62 women, comprising athletes, coaches, and officials. The Lao team will compete in 12 out of the 19 sports on the official competition program: athletics, swimming, powerlifting, goalball, wheelchair basketball, boccia, football, cycling, shooting, fencing, badminton, and tennis.
An official send-off ceremony for the delegation was held on January 9, 2026, at the Lao National Olympic Committee Club. The event was attended by Ms. Dalavone Kittiphan, Deputy Minister of Education and Sports and Vice President of the National Paralympic Committee of Laos (NPCL), and Ms. Khanthaly Siriphongphanh, President of the NPCL, along with relevant officials.
Disabled people face a higher risk of poverty. This is driven partly by the additional costs associated with disability and ill-health, and partly by the barriers to work that disabled people face. However, the proportion of disabled working-age adults in work increased from 42% in 2010/11 to 53% in 2023/24, while poverty rates remained steady over that period. In the latest data, there were 17 million disabled people in the UK — that is, 1 in 4 people (24%) — and almost 4 in 10 families contained at least 1 person who was disabled. The poverty rate for disabled people was 28%, 8 percentage points higher than the rate for people who were not disabled. Half of all people who were disabled and living in poverty in the latest data had a long-term, limiting mental condition — around 2.4 million people. The poverty rate for this group was 34%, compared with 28% for people with a physical disability.
Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines announced on January 26 that according to the travel reminder issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in order to assist affected passengers in better arranging their travel, free refunds and changes can be carried out for tickets for inbound and outbound flights of the above-mentioned airlines on Japan routes purchased before 12 o’clock on January 26 and travel dates from March 29 to October 24.
The Great Lecture Hall in the Sky: Michael Parenti (1933–2026) Michael Parenti died today at 92, peacefully, surrounded by family. The Great Lecture Hall in
This was the attack on our psychological, intellectual, and emotional freedom (the Tories effectively banned the Red Flag – equating it with the Nazi German swastika and far-right terrorist groups) – whilst on the economic and material front, prices rose by five-times over-night! This has not stopped with the election of Trump – but has got far worse whilst wages stagnate (we were already suffering from so-called Austerity) and even reduce in real terms! Businesses are collapsing, doors are closing, and it looks more and more like the bourgeois capitalists are preparing the UK and EU for a major global conflict as a means to achieve full employment through military conscription, and achieving full industrial output via arms production. Any excess working-class population will be reduced by massive losses on the battlefield. This process will re-set the populations of the US, UK, and EU to the point achieved in 1945 – and prepare the populations for decades of recuperative economic and social growth. It does not matter who the enemy is – just as long as there is an “enemy”. We must all hate the government decreed “enemy” and agree to kill each other. This is the boom and bust economic activity associated with predatory capitalist. Capitalism collapsed in the US in 1929 – with Hitler coming to power in 1933 (Mussolini had already came to power in 1922), with the Spanish Civil War occurring (1936-1939), and then finally WWII (1939-1945) – with America joining in in 1941. All the mechanisms introduced post-1945 supposedly put into place to ensure a perpetual peace – have failed due to a lack of will to maintain and perpetuate them. Once again, the myth that “war” is easier and preferable to a “just peace” has been fully established. We are on the brink people – with the US, Neo-Nazi Ukraine, and Zionist Israel (the war-monger triad) – about to push us over the edge!
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 