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Laos’ World Heritage City, Luang Prabang, has returned as the world’s most preferred tourist destination. Meanwhile, a Lao minister expresses confidence that the number of tourists visiting his country will increase by hundreds of thousands this year.
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From 1998 to 2010 at least 4,500 women and children have crossed the borders of Vietnam to supply the prostitution racket. Some 65% go to China, then Cambodia, Laos, to the Europea, African and Americ…
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Cambodia will host a "" for the first time in Development Triangle among Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, a government official said on Thursday.Son Sotha, deputy director of export department of…
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Construction of a rubber latex plant with an annual capacity of 15,000 tonnes started in Pakse district, Champassak province, Laos yesterday.
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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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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 money [...]
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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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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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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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Source: Big News Network
Vientiane – Unusually low levels in Laos' waterways have put a stop to cruise-boat tourism on the Mekong River and dried up several waterfalls, media reports said Tuesday. The Mekong River – which sta…
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