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  • China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin meets Lao leaders
    China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin met here Tuesday respectively with Lao National Assembly President Thongsing Thammavong and Vice President Bounnang Vorachit. Both sides spoke highly of the development of bilateral relations in the past years
  • Chile copper export revenue sink...
    ·PanAust lifts Laos copper mine yield forecast 10% ·Palabora Mining looking into extending copper mine ·Zambia copper output up 12.9 pct in Jan-Aug 2008 ·Copper miner Kazahkmys gains 18 percent ·Southern Copper Corp To Pay $0.34-A-Share Dividend
  • China's top political advisor starts visit to Laos
    starting an official goodwill visit as guest of Sisavath Keobounphanh, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and chairman of Lao Front for National Reconstruction. In a written statement delivered
  • Lagos, banks in talks over N9b Lekki-Island bridge project
    By Tunde Alao WITH extensive sand-filling work already covering a vast stretch of Lagos Island's mainland-side shoreline, engineering designs are about being completed for the next major infrastructure project in the state. The project is a 14-kilometre
  • Mancao, Dumlao in US court Dec, Jan
    MANILA, Philippines--Former Philippine National Police officers Cesar Mancao and Glenn Dumlao will separately face extradition courts in the US in January and December, respectively, for their alleged roles in the double murder of public relations man
  • Congress asked to push probe on missing CPA member
    Representatives of a progressive party-list group recently prepared proposed House Resolution 869 to push the Commission on Human Rights to intensify its investigation on the missing Cordillera People?s Alliance (CPA) member James Balao. ?We appeal
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In 1975 the communist Pathet Lao took control of the government, ending a six-century-old monarchy. Initial closer ties to Vietnam and socialization were replaced with a gradual return to private enterprise, an easing of foreign investment laws, and the admission into ASEAN in 1997.

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