Source: VOA News The World Health Organization says childhood obesity is a growing epidemic and is not restricted to industrialized nations. In fact, the WHO reports the rate of increase is greater in developing countries than in the developed world. (Link to Lao)
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Source: Big News Network BANGKOK, 26 February 2010 (IRIN) – Thousands of migrant workers from Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar face possible deportation from Thailand unless they register their nationality this weekend. Under a …
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Source: Big News Network BANGKOK, 26 February 2010 (IRIN) – Thousands of migrant workers from Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar face possible deportation from Thailand unless they register their nationality this weekend. Under a …
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Source: VOA News The Nam Theun 2 Dam Project will start supplying electricity to Thailand by next month. Meanwhile, Thai authorities have reportedly agreed to buy electricity from Laos’ Hongsa lignite project. (English and Lao descriptions)
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Source: Yahoo News The first train travelling from Singapore to Laos has arrived in the capital Vientiane, marking an important milestone for Laos in its quest to convert itself from landlocked to land-linked nation. T …..
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Source: Yahoo News VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and Laos will work closer together to implement joint hydro-electric power projects, including the Sekarman I plant, to ensure they are completed on schedule.
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Source: VOA News We wanted ULUVUS to be the first Westerners to sing rock in Lao.
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Source: Big News Network Vientiane, Laos – Germany has donated 2.3 million dollars to encourage Lao farmers to switch to alternative crops from opium, cultivation of which grew 19 per cent last year in the Asian country, medi…
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Source: Yahoo News Vietnam and Laos yesterday agreed to collaborate in the construction of a 500 kV transmission line linking the two countries to facilitate electricity trade.
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Source: Yahoo News The German government is providing US$2.3 million in development assistance to enable more former opium poppy farmers to continue to grow other crops and to improve the living conditions of former opium addicts in Oudomxay province, the northern part of Laos.
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