Landlocked Laos's Big Plans
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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