Laos targets hydropower, not democracy http://www.reuters.com/article/mapNews/idUSSIN166120071118?sp=true
Sun Nov 18, 2007
By Daryl Loo and Geert De Clercq
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Landlocked Laos is shaping itself into a battery for its power-hungry neighbors, by damming up its rivers to tap hydropower, but the communist state has no plans to introduce democracy, its prime minister told Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/mapNews/idUSSIN166120071118?sp=true