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The Thai Ministry of Commerce will hold a meeting with Lao authorities to confirm the safety of Thai aquatic products as the Lao government maintains its ban on the pr [1]

AFP The Laos government said Saturday it was “profoundly saddened” by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll from a suspected methanol poisoning incident now at six. [2]

By Don Thompson/AP Writer/Sacramento, California Tuesday, June 19, 2007 [3]

The report was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network as part of the “Ground Truths” collaborative reporting project on soils. [4]

LAOS – The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) has made a significant decision to reform government agencies in a bid to streaml [5]

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[1] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2020-12-29 · 100% match

Thailand seeks Lao government ban lift on aquatic products

The Thai Ministry of Commerce will hold a meeting with Lao authorities to confirm the safety of Thai aquatic products as the Lao government maintains its ban on the pr

[2] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-11-24 · 100% match

Laos government says ‘profoundly saddened’ by tourist deaths due to drinking binge

AFP The Laos government said Saturday it was “profoundly saddened” by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll from a suspected methanol poisoning incident now at six.

[3] MM www2.irrawaddy.com · 100% match

Alleged Conspirators against Lao Government Enter Pleas

By Don Thompson/AP Writer/Sacramento, California Tuesday, June 19, 2007

[4] TH mekongeye.com · 2024-12-16 · 100% match

Fruits of spoil: Laos’ forests disappearing as fruit farms flourish

The report was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network as part of the “Ground Truths” collaborative reporting project on soils.

[5] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2025-03-14 · 100% match

Laos takes bold step towards efficiency by merging six key ministries in major government overhaul

LAOS – The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) has made a significant decision to reform government agencies in a bid to streaml

[6] MM www.rfa.org · 2024-09-12 · 100% match

Lao blogger who criticized failed response to flood freed from prison

A Lao woman who was arrested after criticizing the government’s failure to help hundreds of people stranded by a destructive flood was released from prison on Thursday after serving a five-year sentence.

[7] MM www.rfa.org · 2023-07-13 · 100% match

At Lao potash mine, flood of Chinese workers are displacing local laborers

UPDATED at 7:01 P.M. EDT on 08-14-2023 An influx of Chinese laborers at a potash mine in central Laos has pushed their number to about 3,000, far higher than Lao workers, which number about 100 – despite an agreement that mine operators must hire mor

[8] MM www.rfa.org · 2025-03-17 · 100% match

Foreign firms avoid Lao workers because they ‘have no skills,’ labor official says

A labor ministry official in Laos has dismissed calls for a “solution” to the problem of foreign companies bringing their own workers into the country, saying that the businesses won’t hire domestic workers because the government has failed to adequa

[9] TH mekongeye.com · 2023-06-26 · 100% match

Ethnic groups starve as forests are cleared in Laos

BANGKOK, THAILAND – Land acquisitions in Laos are forcing many Hmong ethnic minority groups to lose access to the forests that traditionally provided them with food.

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-02-19 · 100% match

After Meeting, Govt, SSA Schedule More Talks in Naypyidaw

Burmese government peace negotiators held peace talks with Shan rebel leaders in Thailand on Tuesday and, in a sign of the growing trust between the two sides, they agreed to meet again in Burma’s capital Naypyidaw in the near future, according to a

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