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This photo taken on May 26, 2025 shows clothes hanging on balconies of a building inside the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone along the Mekong river in the Bokeo province of Laos. (confirmed by 2 sources) [1]

Communist-run Laos is stuck in a political rut but it has seen a physical and economic transformation since Radio Free Asia first went on air nearly three decades ago. [2]

Lao and Chinese security forces have detained 771 people in a special economic zone in the country’s northwest, ahead of a deadline for online scam operations to cease their operations inside the zone. [3]

The government of Laos has ordered online scammers to vacate a special economic zone in the northwest of the country, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported earlier this week. [4]

Deficits of the public community Minus 3 212 million Euro-3 212 million 4th quarter 2025, preliminary Public sector income and expenditure quarterly Updated: 2026-03-13 Related substances: Statistics on public sector income and expenditure quarterly ... (translated from sv) [5]

Deputy House Speaker Suchart Tancharoen has called for the government to speed up the development of Chiang Rai as a specia [6]

AFP The Philippine government said on Friday it has begun flying home “distressed” Filipino workers from Laos following a cyber scam crackdown at a shady special economic zone near the country’s border with Myanmar and Thailand. [7]

Around six months ago, Ekapop Lueangprasert, a local government official and business owner in the Sai Mai suburb of Bangkok, was checking messages sent to his Sai Mai Must Survive Facebook page – a volunteer initiative he’d set up to try and help lo... [8]

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[1] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-07-15 · 75% match

‘Las Vegas in Laos’: the riverside city awash with crime

This photo taken on May 26, 2025 shows clothes hanging on balconies of a building inside the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone along the Mekong river in the Bokeo province of Laos.

[2] MM www.rfa.org · 2025-05-07 · 75% match

The difficulty with dams: Key stories from RFA Lao

Communist-run Laos is stuck in a political rut but it has seen a physical and economic transformation since Radio Free Asia first went on air nearly three decades ago.

[3] TH thediplomat.com · 2024-08-22 · 85% match

Lao, Chinese Officials Detain 771 in Raid on Golden Triangle Gambling Hub

Lao and Chinese security forces have detained 771 people in a special economic zone in the country’s northwest, ahead of a deadline for online scam operations to cease their operations inside the zone.

[4] TH thediplomat.com · 2024-08-14 · 85% match

Laos Issues Ultimatum to Golden Triangle Scam Operators

The government of Laos has ordered online scammers to vacate a special economic zone in the northwest of the country, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported earlier this week.

[5] FI stat.fi · 2026-03-13 · 32% match translated from sv

Den offentliga sektorns inkomster och utgifter kvartalsvis

Deficits of the public community Minus 3 212 million Euro-3 212 million 4th quarter 2025, preliminary Public sector income and expenditure quarterly Updated: 2026-03-13 Related substances: Statistics on public sector income and expenditure quarterly

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[6] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2023-01-30 · 75% match

Chiang Rai special economic zone (SEZ) to serve as major hub for trade and transport in the Golden Triangle

Deputy House Speaker Suchart Tancharoen has called for the government to speed up the development of Chiang Rai as a specia

[7] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-08-24 · 75% match

Philippines flies workers home after Laos cyber scam crackdown

AFP The Philippine government said on Friday it has begun flying home “distressed” Filipino workers from Laos following a cyber scam crackdown at a shady special economic zone near the country’s border with Myanmar and Thailand.

[8] TH thediplomat.com · 2022-08-02 · 75% match

Inside Southeast Asia’s Casino Scam Archipelago

Around six months ago, Ekapop Lueangprasert, a local government official and business owner in the Sai Mai suburb of Bangkok, was checking messages sent to his Sai Mai Must Survive Facebook page – a volunteer initiative he’d set up to try and help lo

[9] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2025-02-15 · 75% match

Suspicious surge in oil exports through the Golden Triangle and Mekong River following Thailand’s suspension of shipments to Myanmar

CHIANG RAI / GOLDEN TRIANGLE – An unexpected surge in oil exports through the Golden Triangle and

[10] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-01-23 · 75% match

Lao sex trafficking victims plead for freedom in Myanmar’s Mongla

File Photo/Photo:AFP 3 young women say they were lured by promises of good wages, but forced to sell their bodies RFA When Namtan left her home in the Lao capital of Vientiane last year to go work at a restaurant in the Golden Triangle Special Econom

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