VIENTIANE: Laos moves closer to dev't goals

6 February 2012, 10:12 pm

Laos is slowly but surely moving towards elevation from the United Nations' list of least developed countries by 2020, with the goal of reducing the poverty rate to below 22 per cent by the end of 2012.... Read More »

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