Source: Yahoo News FOREIGN donations aimed at helping areas recover from Tropical Storm Sendong (international name: Washi) continue to pour on Saturday with Laos, a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, added to the list.
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Source: Yahoo News HANOI: Vietnam, Laos and Thailand have agreed to boost geo-economic axis cooperation in their triangle development area, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
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Source: Yahoo News The border situation between Laos and Vietnam remains stable, which facilitates socio-economic development and poverty reduction in the two countries. The two countries’ border committees agreed th …..
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Source: Yahoo News Washington, D.C., Paris, France and Vientiane, Laos, December 25, 2011 Center for Public Policy Analysis info@centerforpublicpolicyanalysis.org The Lao Movement for Human Rights, the Center for Public Policy Analysis, and a coalition of Laotian and Hmong non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have issued a statement and international communique, on Christmas Day, to raise awareness about [...]
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Source: Yahoo News Flowers, notes and candles were placed today at the Lao and Hmong veterans’ monument in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC., by mourners wishing to honor and memorialize the life and tragic death of former French Colonel Robert Jambon.
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Source: Yahoo News VIENTIANE, Laos (Reuters) – The Japanese cars and sport utility vehicles that clog the streets of Laos’s once sleepy capital are testament to the changes quietly under way in a county once seen as a basket case isolated for decades behind Asia’s bamboo curtain. Shopping malls are under construction, mobile phone shops [...]
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Source: Yahoo News VIENTIANE, Laos (Reuters) – The Japanese cars and sport utility vehicles that clog the streets of Laos’s once sleepy capital are testament to the changes quietly under way in a county once seen as a basket case isolated for decades behind Asia’s bamboo curtain. Shopping malls are under construction, mobile phone shops [...]
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Source: Yahoo News Opium cultivation has surged in Myanmar and Laos as high prices attract impoverished farmers to grow the illicit crop, particularly in conflict areas, according to a UN report published Thursday.
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Source: Yahoo News Opium poppy cultivation rises significantly in Burma and Laos since 2006, according to a UN report.
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Source: Yahoo News BANGKOK (Reuters) – Opium cultivation is back on the rise in Myanmar and Laos despite government eradication campaigns, with impoverished farmers lured by higher prices and strong demand from neighboring countries, the United Nations said on Thursday. The area of land devoted to growing opium, a paste from poppy used to make [...]
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