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Over 1m people in Cambodia depend solely on fishing to make a living, while in Laos 70% of rural households supplement their income by fishing.
ECONOMIST: The Mekong river
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Bordered by Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia, the country has a population of roughly 67 million people.
CNN: Country profile: Thailand
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Yet there is no obvious coalition partner for Mr Samaras apart from the right-wing Laos (People's) party under George Karatzaferis, now enjoying its first taste of power as a junior partner in Mr Papademos's government.
ECONOMIST: Tough fiscal negotiations run into hard political reality
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There is an emerging party of religious-nationalist far-rightists under the acronym LAOS (the Greek word for people), which has tried to gain respectability by accepting the need for tough measures, but still stands to gain from the ferment.
ECONOMIST: The Greek crisis
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Among the ghosts are ten people arrested this week in America, accused, of all things, of plotting to topple the communist government in Laos.
ECONOMIST: America foils a coup plot against one of its former enemies