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About the Author: Andrea Doyle serves as a Refugee Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, where she covers regional refugee issues.
Earlier this month, I walked through the marketplace at the Phonekam development village in Laos, with Ambassador Karen Stewart and several…
![Ambassador Karen Stewart hands over a symbolic key to Lao government officials in Phonekham, May 14, 2012. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](http://blogs.state.gov/images/Dipnote/behind_the_scenes/2012_0525_lao_hmong_prm_m.jpg)
Picture of the Day: Kfar Qaddum, West Bank. A Palestinian protester wearing a gas mask and demonstrating against an Israeli settlement near Kfar Qaddum outside of Nablus, peers through the eyehole cut in his makeshift shield.
Credit: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters. Via.
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