Barun Roy: Laos powers ahead (Business Standard India)

Source: Yahoo News Later this month, after four years in the making, Laos’ biggest hydropower plant so far, Nam Theun 2, will start producing electricity and selling almost all of it to Thailand. With this will further expand the landlocked country’s reputation as the “battery” for South-East Asian nations and its novel way of earning [...]

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Governor vows to stamp out opium production in Laos province (Asia News Network)

Source: Yahoo News A clampdown on opium producers is to be carried out in Laos’ Phongsaly province, with the clandestine growing of poppies still widespread in the area. Phongsaly province governor Khamsan Souvong mad …..

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Governor vows to stamp out opium production in Laos province (Asia News Network)

Source: Yahoo News A clampdown on opium producers is to be carried out in Laos’ Phongsaly province, with the clandestine growing of poppies still widespread in the area.

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Laos continues to block public access to deported Hmong tribesmen (Boulder Weekly)

Source: Yahoo News WASHINGTON — A California congressman has joined human rights activists in voicing concern over the treatment of ethnic Hmong deported by Thailand late last year to their native Laos and now being confined in isolated villages inaccessible to international news media and rights groups.

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