The Mekong is the beating heart of landlocked Laos, with 80 per cent of her seven million people subsistence-farming near the river (this I discovered from the Footprint guidebook, not the deck).

湄公河是老挝这个内陆国家跳动着的心脏，七百万人口中有80%在湄公河流域生活和从事农业生产。

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With little to cling to except each other, Hmong girls reflect the uncertainty of a people driven from their homes in the protracted war for Laos.

洪族女孩们除了彼此之外没有什么可以依靠了，她们反映了一个民族的不确定性。

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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.

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Bordered by Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia, the country has a population of roughly 67 million people.

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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.

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