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Radio Free Asia operates under a Congressional mandate to deliver uncensored, domestic news and information to China, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Burma, among other places in Asia with poor media environments and few, if any, free speech protections.
Radio Free Asia reported in October 2021 that some Lao villagers displaced from their land by the line's construction complained that they had still not received compensation. [52] In the first year of operation, the railway only allowed ticket purchases up to three days in advance and online sales were not available.
Since the normalization of Sino-Laotian relations in 1987 when the country began to transition into a free-market capitalist oriented economy, numerous Chinese Laotian families that once fled the country have returned to central and southern Laos to reclaim their once lost expropriated assets, businesses, and other property seized by the Lao ...
HONG KONG — Radio Free Asia is closing its bureau in Hong Kong, the U.S.-funded media outlet said Friday, citing concerns about staff safety in the Chinese territory after the passage of a new ...
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On 28 July 2014, at a meeting with Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping in Beijing, Lao People's Revolutionary Party general secretary Choummaly Sayasone asked the Chinese government to continue its assistance of rail development in Laos. [35] In October 2014, Radio Free Asia reported that China had made a new pledge to finance ...
On 3 December 2021, he and President of China Xi Jinping opened the new Boten–Vientiane section of the Lao-China railway. [22] [23] Laos however faces rising debt to China, with half of Laos' external debt being owned to China. At the 27th Future of Asia conference in Tokyo on 27 May 2022, Thongloun downplayed concerns over a Chinese debt ...
The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone is located along the Mekong River in the Golden Triangle area where Laos, Myanmar and Thailand meet. [10]: 103 The zone is midway (20.361150, 100.099807) between Houay Xay, the capital of Laos' Bokeo Province, and Tachileik, Myanmar.