Laos faces thorny land issues in Asia's orchard http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSSP28905020080410?sp=true
Thu Apr 10, 2008
By Darren Schuettler
VIENTIANE (Reuters) - After decades of isolation, Communist-led Laos is enjoying an economic boom fuelled in part by surging demand for its abundant commodity -- land.
>From China to Japan and South Korea to Thailand, agri-business firms are
flocking to the landlocked Southeast Asian nation to grow everything from
rubber and pulp trees to organic vegetables and "green" crops for
alternative fuels.
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