The Cole Land Transportation Museum is located in Bangor, Maine and features a large selection of vintage vehicle on display. Everything from military vehicles, fire trucks, motorcycles and even a full size train with box car and caboose can found under one roof. This is perhaps New England's best automotive museum!! Check out www.colemuseum.org for more information.
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Thailand has come good on its promise to evict some four thousand ethnic Hmong asylum seekers and send them back to Laos. Despite strong objections from human rights groups and the US, who fear they will face persecution, the Thai Army was sent in to load the refugees onto trucks and drive them to the Lao border from where they had settled in Petchabun province. The Hmong are a mountain people from of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Burma who helped US forces during the Vietnam War. Many in Laos fought under CIA advisers during the so-called "secret war" before the country fell to the communists in 1975. More than 300-thousand Laotians, mostly Hmong, are known to have fled to Thailand since 1975. They claim they have been persecuted by the Lao government ever since. Most were either repatriated or resettled in third countries, particularly the United States, but Washington has said it has no plans to resettle more Hmong. The Thai government claims most of the Hmong are economic migrants who entered the country illegally and have no claims to refugee status. The army's coordinator for the operation said the Hmong were being driven out of the camp in military trucks and would then be put on 110 buses going to the border town of Nong Khai, and then across to Laos. The Thai army denied allegations of brutality by one human rights group, which said callers from inside the camp had used their mobile phones to report violence and bloodshed. The Laos government has rejected ...
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Now thats what I call a tow truck!!

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