Telephone
service in Laos, both domestic and international, is on-again,
off-again at best. In the towns and cities of the Mekong valley,
service has improved substantially in the last couple of...
Laos, like Thailand, is seven hours ahead of GMT/UTC. Thus, noon in Vientiane is 10pm the previous day in San Francisco, lam in New York, 5am in London, 1pm in Perth and 3pm in Sydney.