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December 2, 2008 9:34:08 PM CST


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 Scars of War Remain
 for Laotian Farmers 

Land littered with bombs makes subsistence farming a more dire proposition

(Newser) - As if surviving as a farmer in the developing world wasn't hard enough, for those in Laos there is an extra—often deadly—complication. The US littered the Southeast Asian nation with 2 million tons of explosives during the Vietnam War, one-third of which remain precariously unexploded, and responsible for an unquantified weekly death toll, reports Gourmet in a look at the complicated task of removing them. More »

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10 Arrested in Laos Takeover Scheme

Plotters led by former Laotian general and US military officer 

(Newser) - Ten suspects were arrested in six Californian cities today for conspiring to overthrow the government of Laos. The plotters included a former general in the Laotian army and a former US military officer who was a covert operative during the Vietnam War, the AP reports. Most of the group were Hmong, an ethnic minority who supported the US during the war. More »

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