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Landlocked Laos's Big Plans

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Nov 15, 2012
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Although Laos is soon to join the World Trade Organization, it remains very much Southeast Asia's forgotten country, a landlocked backpacker magnet of unexploded ordnance and bad, winding roads nicely topped off by stunning jungle, river and mountain vistas.

Lying between China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma and Thailand, Communist-ruled Laos has moved off wh…

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