Max's Tribute to Filipinos in Laos
Maximo Soliven, publisher of the daily newspaper Philippine Star, died November 24, 2006 in Japan from a heart attack. He was 77 years old. He was by most accounts one of the country's great journalists. He was in Laos in 1959 and 1960.
In 2002, on the occasion of the visit of the Lao Prime Minister to the Philippines, he wrote this column.
Almost half of it is devoted to the work of Filipinos in Laos, notably Operation Brotherhood. For a short description of his five-decade journalistic career, visit http://en.wikipedia.org and type in "maximo soliven" in the search box.
