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Asia Times, September 14, 2020
Laos set to cede majority control of its national power grid to China to service Belt and Road debts
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Asia Times, May 20, 2020
Fitch Ratings says Laos' finances are 'inadequate' to meet its foreign debt payments owed largely to China
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Asia Times, April 24, 2020
Chinese built high-speed railway expected to transform southern neighbor and boost economy
[read the article at www.atimes.com]
Asia Times, April 10, 2020
China’s generous virus response to impoverished southern neighbor is all about keeping the Belt and Road Initiative on track in SE Asia
[read the article at www.atimes.com]
Asia Times, June 24, 2019
Beijing has leveraged its Belt and Road Initiative to gain the upper hand on the Mekong River while the US and Japan’s competing initiatives wash away
[read the article at www.atimes.com]
YaleGlobal, December 15, 2009
Laos' hosting of the Southeast Asian Games is in some way a metaphor for the country's entrance into the globalized world. And Laos has crossed that threshold holding China's hand, according to journalist Bertil Lintner.
[read the article at yaleglobal.yale.edu]
Southeast Asian Affairs, Volume 2008
In line with the directions set down by the Eighth Congress of the ruling Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) in March 2006, the Lao People's Democratic Republic will remain a one-party state with old-style, Soviet-era political institutions, while encouraging free enterprise and foreign investment. The outcome so far has been a remarkable political stability, and an impressive economic performance.
[read the article at muse.jhu.edu]
Asia Times, February 2, 2008
One year after Sompawn Khantisouk was abducted by men believed to be local police officers, the whereabouts of the entrepreneur, the owner and manager of a small eco-tourism lodge in northern Laos, are still unknown.
[read the article at www.atimes.com]
Asia Times, January 10, 2008
Though still small and largely confined to the capital Vientiane and a few other urban centers, a middle class is slowly but surely emerging in land-locked, communist-run Laos.
[read the article at www.atimes.com]
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Far Eastern Economic Review, March 18, 2004
Brett Dakin's account of his experience working in Laos adds to the
small pool of such records on the country, writes Bertil Lintner.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, December 11, 2003
A controversial power station in Laos has environmentalists upset, but it could increase government revenues.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, July 17, 2003
Hmong rebels have fought the Lao government for almost 30 years. What explains their tenacity?
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Far Eastern Economic Review, February 20, 2003
Mervyn Brown, deputy to the British ambassador in Laos in the 1960s, seeks, through his recollections of the civil war in Laos, to correct the impression that a diplomat's life is an easy one. A book Review by Bertil Lintner.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, November 07, 2002
The Lao currency, the kip, is sliding, inflation is rising, foreign investment is down, not enough revenue is being collected and the government does not even have enough money to pay state employees such as teachers. But it is a general trend, not necessarily a road to complete disaster.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, July 18, 2002
Bertil Lintner reviews 10 Months in Laos: A Vast Web of Intrigue, Missing Millions and Murder, by Paul Conroy.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, August 17, 2001
He's winning friends abroad, but for Prince Soulivong Savang, pretender to the Lao throne, staging a royal revival at home won't be easy.
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The Irrawaddy, June 01, 2000
Political turmoil comes to one of the most isolated communist ruled countries in Southeast Asia.
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Jane's Intelligence Review, April 2000
Severe economic conditions in Laos have led to calls for political change and democracy. Bertil Lintner reports on recent anti-government demonstrations in one of the worlds few remaining communist countries.
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