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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.
I would argue that non-White cultures (not crushed by Eurocentric imperialism) possess a scale of sexual and gender manifestation that is far more fluid than that found in th West. Much more is tolerated with far less reactionary resistsnce. Married Chinese men can be effeminate – just as married Chinese women can be masculine – it is not that big a deal in the everyday world of Chinese existence. Teenagers naturally discover their sexuality and identity without the interference of the State define this or punishing that – so what exactly was Qiu Miaolin rebelling against? Was it the Nationalist domination of Taiwan? Was it the fascist (patriarchal) reality of Kuomintang (KMT) reality? Was it the obvious US domination of her Chinese culture? Was it the left-over influence of the Imperial Japanese presence on the island? I note that in the Chinese-language assessments of Qiu Miaolin – the “gay” Japanese fascist – Yukio Mishima is mentioned. After WWII, Mishima propagated a male gay cult that practiced homo-erotic martial arts whilst dreaming of over-throwing the US-dominated government and returning Japan to its feudal greatness (he would lead a failed military uprising in the early 1970s – before committing ritual suicide). Mishima, of course, was an anti-China racist – so why admire him? I am not a woman and am not a lesbian – so I advise the reader to research freely and to think for themselves.
This Saturday, January 3rd, at 1:57 am, as part of the criminal and multidimensional attacks perpetrated by the United States government against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the facilities of the Mathematics Centre of the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), a vital scientific and academic space of our National University of Sciences Dr. Humberto Fernández-Morán, were completely destroyed.
The 79-year-old former fashion editor of Harpers and Queen said: “There was something about me and my extreme youth that he thought may be pleasing to an actor’s eye.
“He’d lead me from the National Gallery and position me outside every stage door, week after week, before the start of the matinee.
“We’d await the arrival of the stars, the leading actors, hurrying into make-up and costume.”
But they were never summoned backstage.
“Nobody invited us around to their dressing rooms, or slipped a card into my father’s gloved hand, murmuring to get in touch and bring the lovely child along,” she said.
“Time was running out for my father. I was growing older every day. That was his failure, the inability to stop the march of time.
“The first violence began after the failure to find a paramour or protector, or frankly a paedophile, to share his daughter,” she said. “One who might change the family fortunes for the better.
Her dad, who died in 1956, even hoped to pimp his girl to movie legend Errol Flynn, she said.
“He’d read somewhere that Errol Flynn had a penchant for young girls, the younger the better, and began gambling a portion of his wages on a weekly basis to raise the fare to Hollywood for me and himself.”
🔸 My special greeting to the women of Venezuela, from the powerful Josefa Joaquina Sánchez Movement.
🔸 This school has to train the #Liderazgo of women, who are the majority leaders in the people. We are going to train them for transformative action.
🔸 It’s a miracle what we have experienced since 2021 with #Mujeres who used their creativity; that has already been consolidated.
🔸 We have 2,800,000 women incorporated into the great Movement of Movements. A good advance in 28,000 of the 49,000 Communal Councils, but we are heading there!
🔸 What a joy that this school has its epicentre in the state of Aragua, a land of liberators where big dreams are born.
🔸 I propose that it be the women who lead the ‘Admirable Challenge – Forever! (RA-2026). The challenge of 2026.’
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 