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Vietnam - Prominent Vietnam blogger arrested in Hanoi
Vietnamese police in Hanoi arrested a blogger on Thursday June 13, 2013 on accusations of anti-state activity, according to news reports. Pham Viet Dao wrote blogs that were critical of government officials and policies, the reports said.Dao, 61, who also wrote about politically sensitive issues such as the territorial dispute with China, was accused of violating Article 258 of the ...
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Laos Vietnam set date to celebrate end of border demarcation
Laos and Vietnam have agreed to hold a ceremony on July 9 to mark the completion of the demarcation and restoration of their shared border, after their foreign ministers met in Luang Prabang province of Laos. The ceremony will take place at the Thanh Thuy-Nam On border crossing between Vietnam's Nghe An province and Laos' Borikhamxay province, the Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs said ...
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Vietnamese investor finances new airport in Laos
A leading Vietnamese investor in Laos, the Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company (HAGL), has provided an interest-free loan to build an airport in Laos northern province of Huaphan. The contract, worth more than 569 billion kip (US$74 million), was signed in Vientiane on Saturday by HAGL and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. Director General of the ministry's Department of Civil ...
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Vietnam arrests third blogger in less than a month in intensifying crackdown on dissent
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese police have arrested a blogger accused of posting "erroneous and slanderous" information about the communist government, state media reported Monday. The blogger is the third locked up in less than a month in an intensifying crackdown against dissent. Dinh Nhat Uy was taken into police custody in southern Long An province on Saturday, the state-run Thanh ...
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Laos - Laos urged to end cover-up in activists disappearance
Authorities in Laos have failed to seriously investigate or credibly explain the enforced disappearance six months ago of a leading social activist, Sombath Somphone, Human Rights Watch said on June 14, 2013.Sombath, 60, the 2005 recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, was last seen by his wife on December 15, 2012, as they were driving separately from his office in the ...
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World Heritage Committee opens in Cambodia
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (front) shows his respect to an ancient stone sculpture returened from the Metropolitan Museum of Art before the opening ceremony of the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, on June 16, 2013. The 37th session of WHC kicked off on Sunday evening here and would last until June 27 in order to consider inscribing 31 ...
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Laos looking ahead
The new stock exchange in Laos may be a sign of changes to come in our otherwise centrally-run economy.
Laos is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia, but as the globally economy recovers and commodity prices pick up, the country looks set for a future of relatively strong growth, if not widespread prosperity, and this has been exemplified in the government’s recent decision to open a stock exchange in the country, which it is hoped will bring much-needed capital flowing into the country to fund investment projects in industry and infrastructure, catalysts for further growth in the economy. Read more
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