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The Asian Development Bank has pledged to increase its financial assistance to the Lao PDR in the next two years, aiming to help Laos mitigate the impacts of the current global financial crisis. |
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Lao officials admit that the number of its foreign tourists visiting to Laos during 2008 did not met its goals of 1.8 million people due to the global economic crisis and political problems in its neighboring Thailand. |
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The goal is to stem illegal logging and illicit timber trade by making sure that only processed woods are exported, and the processed woods come from logs that have been lawfully cut down in concession areas and according to granted quotas. |
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Laos is known as the land of a million elephants. But the elephant population has been continuously on the decline, with currently less than 1,000 wild elephants and about 500 domestic ones remaining. |
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Attepeu is one of three provinces to benefit from an assistance worth $9 million provided by the U.S. government to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) to fund the expansion of its School Feeding Project over the course of three years. |
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Lao officials acknowledge that illegal Lao labor in Thailand is becoming an issue of increasing concern. The number of these workers in Thailand, according to Thai authorities, is approximately 300,000. |
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They say the dams could displace thousands of villagers and harm hundreds of species including the giant catfish(Pa Buk)and the Irrawaddy dolphin (Pa Kha). |
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