Millicom says sale of Lao operations fallen through

Source: Yahoo News STOCKHOLM, March 31 (Reuters) – Emerging markets telecoms firm Millicom said on Wednesday that Russia’s Vimpelcom had not completed the agreed purchase of Millicom’s majority stake in its operations in Laos.

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Indonesia football community starts review

Source: Yahoo News Indonesia’s president has opened a national football conference reviewing the poor results of the national team and the country’s top football official. Indonesia has already been knocked out of qualifying for next year’s Asia Cup in Qatar, and during the recent Southeast Asian Games it lost to minnow Laos.

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Rare glimpse of Hmong in Laos fails to quell concerns

Source: Yahoo News PHONKHAM VILLAGE, Laos (AFP) – A small, woollen-hatted woman, one of thousands of ethnic Hmong recently expelled from Thailand, creeps up to the row of rare foreign visitors in her new Laotian village.

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