Because, in Laos, they r 14 Provinces out of 17 provinces have been affected by
UXO which America droped in Laos during the secret war and Indochina war from 1964-1973.

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Dear all,

 

It would not be good, if I posted the article but I do not read. Thank you very much all of you for taking your time to read and post your comments. I really appreciate your contribution. I must accept that in the article that I had posted there were lots of mistakes, I knew them after posting, because my eyesight is not good and my English is poor. No wonder people in America want to teach us with English American standard. It would be great if you can do. Lao people would welcome the move. I also accept that they know English well and better than me. It might be perhaps my background was not good. I learnt French language in school. After that, I had studied in Russia or former Soviet Union. I know Russian quite well because I had studied there for about 10 years. I have started learning English just before I came to Singapore. That’s a reason I am a poor English person compared to my daughter who is belonging to new Lao generation, she knows English better than me.

 

The big mistake that I had made was I said that some of our officials don’t like to listen to “voice of bird- Sieng Nok Sieng Ka”, In fact I should have written: “Some of our officials did not like to listen to …….”. Now, they have changed already. I think, they changed their mind after opening our country to the world. As we all know that every time before our parliament session opened, Lao people can send letter, email, expressing their opinion to the session. And the great thing is they even provide telephone number for hotline. I know we love to participate to that forum. It’s kind of we feel happy that our opinions also can be heard in that parliament meeting. Even in some developed countries their people cannot do like Lao people do. I remember once I also sent my opinion through email to our parliament. I felt that it was a really great honor for me when they replied me my opinion was received and even thanked to me. Here, I wanted to say that is a kind of democracy in our society, although it’s still not as perfect as in first world countries, but at least we move to the point, I am really proud of the move. Thing cannot be done overnight. We would need time to go the point. I remember former President of France, the land where first revolution or democracy was born, once said “Democracy cannot be imposed from outside, but it will develop inside the community and its people”. That is the always truth. It’s like you don’t want get married with this lady, but someone forces you to do that. Like that you would suffer until you die or you would die, although you still can breathe “Tai Thang Pen”. Oh God, don’t let me face such a case. No doubt, all of us don’t want the case that has been happening in IRAQ. Lao people really don’t want such a case, from such a case we had suffered for long time, no wonder we are poor. We have no opportunity to develop our country. That’s really sad for our past time.

 

Yes, the first person who responded to me was Mr. FOREVER. And probably the most active person who participated in this topic, even some words which most people don’t like, if I remember, he commented twice. Unfortunately, some could not help annoying with that and said something bad to him. I understand that they could control themselves. By the way, I do agree with him the fact that Laos moved too slow was because some of our people had low education. That’s really right reason, which is a part of good governance. However, I don’t think that I can agree with other his comments. I also do understand that his environment might be different with us. He could be a person who closes to old Lao people, who had power before 1975, that’s why he thinks different from us. I would advice him think on them again. If our foreign Lao people are clever enough, I think, they would not need to do war; they should come to Laos to do business in Laos. Our government always welcomes all kind of businessmen. They would have even more advantages than other foreigners because they can talk in Lao language. And then our government will depend on them, and of course they will also depend on Lao people. That’s a great idea. That would mean we help each other.

 

The second person who responded to my topic was Mr. Webmaster. It’s really a great honor for me and I appreciate it. His comment is a kind of Buddha’ teaching “Our happiness is our satisfactory with ourselves. Please have a look again I really like it:
 
“Laos is still poor because Lao people never think they are rich!
Laos is actually very rich in natural resources and culture.
Laos is richer than many countries in Africa
If we think we are rich and happy with what we have, then we are rich.
If we think we are poor and never satisfy with what we have, then we are always poor!”
  
No wonder, he is the only person who created this website for us so that we can communicate to each other. He might often go to the temples in Laos with his wife or his girlfriend to say the least. To this comment lots people like it, including one educated French person who has Lao wife and stay together in France. Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it.
Here, I am glad that he agreed with my opinion. At least, I know someone also like I do. Although I don’t know this person well, probably I can say something about him. Do forgive me, if I were wrong. This person is really concerned about our culture and environment, and surprisingly he did not mention any thing about politic, although he is a French gentle man. He also knows history of Laos quite well, especially the history of LaoKingdom. I am proud that French gentle man wants to enjoy our GNH saying he may visit Laos with his wife on next January. That means our country is not that bad. Even gentle man from France wants stay in Laos for one month. That’s a great idea and we all Lao people should be proud of our country.

 

The forth person who responded to my article is the respected Lao person of mine who has Australian citizen. Probably I should call him Eloung KL, please do forgive me if I spell your name wrongly. He is a person who really helps me in all field, especially he is a really positive about Laos. No wonder, I feel that our Lao people living in oversea also love Laos. Living abroad doesn’t mean anything that they do not love Laos. They just seek for a better life. I presume that they can help Lao people in the sense that they can talk and explain to foreigners so that the foreigners can understand Lao people well, at least let them know that we really love peace, we don’t want war. And I agree with his comment as I said earlier on. “If your family was poor then your children were likely staying poor or cannot be rich easily. That’s a true”.  I also agree that Lao people now cannot be lazy anymore. Except planting rice, Lao people still do other thing for selling. And some are good in doing business. The number of Lao businessmen is also increasing. The lazy matter could be meant for the past time Lao people already. Thank you very much for your thought, I repeat the comment which posted by someone.

 

Thank you to person who posted about GNH saying that this GHN set up in practice by King Bhutan. In fact, I would say the GNH is related to philosophy of Thai King, what is called “Sed tha kid pho phieng”. I really appreciate it. I assume that this person is a Thai citizen and educated. And he might have meet with Lao people before or he is about to visit Laos. Thank you for your comment.
Yes, I think, Lao people need to learn from GNH as well. While welcoming investors from outside, our government needs to look on our law and regulation, makes it fair for all sites both our people and investors. Otherwise our people will become poorer, instead of richer. You may remember the case of the salary of 80000 kip/month. Like it or not, that is a real exploitation.

 

Thank you to person who said that our country conditions have made Lao people to be lazy or easygoing life style. That’s partly true. But if we work hard like other nations do, I think, definitely, we would be richer them.

 

Thank you to person who said that our economic growth is normal. Probably he is an economic or at least studying in economic or finance. I understand his point. That if we go to fast Lao people may not be able to adapt to that condition, but he just compared from 1986 -2006, but he forgot to compare from 1975-2006. Anyway, I appreciate his opinion as well.

 

Thank you to all people who I could not mention, who participated in this topic both positive and negative. People can have their own opinions. But I am sure that our readers will make the judgment by themselves. When we, as well as our officals, listen to someone, we of course will make the conclusion by ourselves. It is not good also when you listen to me and you believe me without thinking. That’s a kind of critical thinking. When we listen or hear someone says something, we need to put question “Why or how to find the reason for that? That is a good way for us to be the good readers and listeners.

 

 

Regards,
TSP     

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         This topic is  over 2 years  is old . Today I just found it and very interested  " why Laos is still poor or moves so slow ? " The answer is very simple since 1975 a lot of skill workers , doctors , bankers , traders , economists , professors, physicists and well educated people were sent to concentration camp or prison and  died or were sentenced to death or exile. Therefore only farmers and uneducated or low educated people were running the country , those people were not traders , bankers, economists and skill workers so Laos lacked of the professional people in every field until young generation who graduated from over sea who had very little experience to run the country and it was already too late because Laos was already in debt with bad loans and contracts with Vietnam, Thailand , China and Russia. Most of the rain forest has been destroyed .Most of the neighbouring countries took advantage from Laos with  bad loans , contracts and investments deal such China took totally control of couple provinces in the northern part to build casinos ,Vietnam from the south for their rubber plantations and took a lot of timber from Laos and some land  and resources now the Russia would like to do the same because Laos owe them money and could not make payments. Timbers , hydro powers dams ,mines and tourism are not enough to drag Lao out of this deep hole which were dug by the not well educated elderly powerful high ranking government officials. Laos is in debt for many generations to come.

Federation Council approves debt settlement deal with Laos



RBC, 22.12.2008, Moscow 12:40:16.The Russian Federation Council has ratified an agreement between the governments of Russia and Laos on the settlement of the republic's loan debt to Russia denominated in rubles. According to Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the Federation Council's foreign affairs committee, the agreement provides for the restructuring of Laos's total $1.3 billion dollars debt from November 1, 2003. Laos now has the right to refrain from paying 70 percent of the sum, while the other 30 percent is subject to negotiations and must be fully repaid in accordance with the payment schedule. Furthermore, the consolidated sum and interest rate can be used by Russia in exchange for its share in environmental protection and other projects on the territory of Laos. Moreover, Russia is entitled to exchange the country's debt for certain products and services.

Where did the money go ? This loan was made in 2003 . So that is no wonder that is why Laos is the least developed and the poorest country. Lao leader should take a look at Singapore and south Korea as the model how they turned their countries from poor and poverty to the first world countries and  the most modern countries and the richest in Asia.

 

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 south korea for sample that good idea they real work hard and pure

but for singapore the bad idea cz leder all bad behavior like to intervene and spy to destroy for others country weaker then himself,that the fact and real happen

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Why you said that Singapore spy to destroy another countries and what Singapore get out of it? that 's none sense.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Low educated people
To many corruptions
Don't care about you, but me

BIG FISH EATS SMALL FISH, SMALL FISH EATS SMALLER FISH, SMALLER FISH EATS SMALL-SMALLER FISH AND FISH EATS FISH NERVER ENOUGH.

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There are only 58 multimillionaires  in Laos Thailand have more and also billionaires and Laos does not have any billionaires.

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There are only 58 multimillionaires  in Laos Thailand have more and also billionaires .

           So what Thailand have only 3 billionaires . Thaksin earns more money now than when he was prime minister.


        

 

Countries with the Most Billionaires

Rank	Country	Number of billionaires
1	United States	269
2	Japan	29
3	Germany	28
4	Italy	17
5	Canada	16
6	Switzerland	15
7	France	15
8	Hong Kong	14
9	Mexico	13
10	United Kingdom	12
11	Russia	8
11	Saudi Arabia

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List of countries by the number of billionaires

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The following is a list of known U.S. dollar billionaires in 2009 as of March 2009, listed by nationality, and grouped by continent. The lists of billionaires is compiled annually by the Forbes Magazine. The list excludes heads of states whose wealth is tied to their position

[edit] World wide top 10

Total = 817(2009)

Rank	Country	Number of billionaires	Category
1	United States	360	Category:American billionaires
2	China	79	Category:Chinese billionaires
3	India	58	Category:Indian billionaires
4	Germany	54	Category:German billionaires
5	Russia	32	Category:Russian billionaires
6	United Kingdom	25	Category:British billionaires
7	Canada	23	Category:Canadian billionaires
8	Hong Kong	19	Category:Hong Kong billionaires
9	Japan	17	Category:Japanese billionaires
10	Indonesia	15	Category:Indonesian billionaires

 Asia

Total = 166

Rank	Nation/Region	Number of billionaires	Notes
1	China	79
2	India	58
3	Hong Kong	19
4	Japan	17
5	Indonesia	15
6	Saudi Arabia	14
7	Iran	13
8	Israel	10
9	Pakistan	7(unverified)
10	United Arab Emirates	6
11	Taiwan	5
12	Kuwait	4
13	South Korea	4
14	Lebanon	3
15	Philippines	3
16	Thailand	3
17	Kazakhstan	2
19	Singapore	2

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Laos does not have any billionaire yet but soon may be at least 10 more years .  Laos will have the first billionaire when Laos become the battery of southeast Asia.

 Please pray that Laos is not a 3rd world anymore by 2020 before kee mo ok or at least catch up with your neighbor cambodia.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Laos does not have any billionaire yet but soon may be at least 10 more years .  Laos will have the first billionaire when Laos become the battery of southeast Asia.

 Please pray that Laos is not a 3rd world anymore by 2020 before kee mo ok or at least catch up with your neighbor cambodia.

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 If Laotian changes the new habit not to be lazy any more and work harder and study harder and move faster then may be. Take the south Korean and Singaporean as the model , they work hard and study hard.

 

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Anonymous wrote:

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By the year 2020 Laos should have the first billionaire.

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you mean billionaire   (kip)?

Anonymous wrote:

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By the year 2020 Laos should have the first billionaire.

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you mean billionaire   (kip)?

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 Of course , US dollars.

 

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Anonymous wrote:

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Laos does not have any billionaire yet but soon may be at least 10 more years .  Laos will have the first billionaire when Laos become the battery of southeast Asia.
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 Please pray that Laos is not a 3rd world anymore by 2020 before kee mo ok or at least catch up with your neighbor cambodia.

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          Bo di Kee mo .There will be Laotian billionaire but Laos will still be poor countryand to catch up with neighbor Cambodia. wow that it is not possible. Cambodia has oil and natural gas after drilling  Cambodia will have 4 to 5 billion dollars per year income from oil. Laos might be the battery of southeast Asia that Laos might have 80 hydro power dams , timbers ,gold  and copper mines and casinos so no way that Laos could catch up with Cambodia . Laos will still be poor country but there will be more Laotian multimillionaires and possibly a billionaire by that time.

 

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30 years ago China did not have any billionaires  and barely had millionaires . Today there are 79 billionaires in main land China.

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Anonymous wrote:

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 Laos was poor yesterday , is poor today and will be poor tomorrow that is the  way , it is going to be because of Lao people has never learned , the history always repeating itself since under Burma , Vietnam , Siam and French because of  jealous, corruptions and betray never united . Jao Anouvong lost the war because he had been betrayed by Laotian and his own people.

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Anonymous wrote:

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I dont understand why you would want billionaires in laos. Why want money concentrated to very few people when majority lives in dire poverty. I would rather have several multimillionaires, many rich and a huge pool of middle income and small proportion of poor. Whether you like it or not someone still need to do hardlabor dirty job like janitorials and laundry coz these are part of customer service. besides if a billionaire come up at this current state of laos, you would wonder where the money came from.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Dear all,

 

It would not be good, if I posted the article but I do not read. Thank you very much all of you for taking your time to read and post your comments. I really appreciate your contribution. I must accept that in the article that I had posted there were lots of mistakes, I knew them after posting, because my eyesight is not good and my English is poor. No wonder people in America want to teach us with English American standard. It would be great if you can do. Lao people would welcome the move. I also accept that they know English well and better than me. It might be perhaps my background was not good. I learnt French language in school. After that, I had studied in Russia or former Soviet Union. I know Russian quite well because I had studied there for about 10 years. I have started learning English just before I came to Singapore. That’s a reason I am a poor English person compared to my daughter who is belonging to new Lao generation, she knows English better than me.

 

The big mistake that I had made was I said that some of our officials don’t like to listen to “voice of bird- Sieng Nok Sieng Ka”, In fact I should have written: “Some of our officials did not like to listen to …….”. Now, they have changed already. I think, they changed their mind after opening our country to the world. As we all know that every time before our parliament session opened, Lao people can send letter, email, expressing their opinion to the session. And the great thing is they even provide telephone number for hotline. I know we love to participate to that forum. It’s kind of we feel happy that our opinions also can be heard in that parliament meeting. Even in some developed countries their people cannot do like Lao people do. I remember once I also sent my opinion through email to our parliament. I felt that it was a really great honor for me when they replied me my opinion was received and even thanked to me. Here, I wanted to say that is a kind of democracy in our society, although it’s still not as perfect as in first world countries, but at least we move to the point, I am really proud of the move. Thing cannot be done overnight. We would need time to go the point. I remember former President of France, the land where first revolution or democracy was born, once said “Democracy cannot be imposed from outside, but it will develop inside the community and its people”. That is the always truth. It’s like you don’t want get married with this lady, but someone forces you to do that. Like that you would suffer until you die or you would die, although you still can breathe “Tai Thang Pen”. Oh God, don’t let me face such a case. No doubt, all of us don’t want the case that has been happening in IRAQ. Lao people really don’t want such a case, from such a case we had suffered for long time, no wonder we are poor. We have no opportunity to develop our country. That’s really sad for our past time.

 

Yes, the first person who responded to me was Mr. FOREVER. And probably the most active person who participated in this topic, even some words which most people don’t like, if I remember, he commented twice. Unfortunately, some could not help annoying with that and said something bad to him. I understand that they could control themselves. By the way, I do agree with him the fact that Laos moved too slow was because some of our people had low education. That’s really right reason, which is a part of good governance. However, I don’t think that I can agree with other his comments. I also do understand that his environment might be different with us. He could be a person who closes to old Lao people, who had power before 1975, that’s why he thinks different from us. I would advice him think on them again. If our foreign Lao people are clever enough, I think, they would not need to do war; they should come to Laos to do business in Laos. Our government always welcomes all kind of businessmen. They would have even more advantages than other foreigners because they can talk in Lao language. And then our government will depend on them, and of course they will also depend on Lao people. That’s a great idea. That would mean we help each other.

 

The second person who responded to my topic was Mr. Webmaster. It’s really a great honor for me and I appreciate it. His comment is a kind of Buddha’ teaching “Our happiness is our satisfactory with ourselves. Please have a look again I really like it:
 
“Laos is still poor because Lao people never think they are rich!
Laos is actually very rich in natural resources and culture.
Laos is richer than many countries in Africa
If we think we are rich and happy with what we have, then we are rich.
If we think we are poor and never satisfy with what we have, then we are always poor!”
  
No wonder, he is the only person who created this website for us so that we can communicate to each other. He might often go to the temples in Laos with his wife or his girlfriend to say the least. To this comment lots people like it, including one educated French person who has Lao wife and stay together in France. Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it.
Here, I am glad that he agreed with my opinion. At least, I know someone also like I do. Although I don’t know this person well, probably I can say something about him. Do forgive me, if I were wrong. This person is really concerned about our culture and environment, and surprisingly he did not mention any thing about politic, although he is a French gentle man. He also knows history of Laos quite well, especially the history of LaoKingdom. I am proud that French gentle man wants to enjoy our GNH saying he may visit Laos with his wife on next January. That means our country is not that bad. Even gentle man from France wants stay in Laos for one month. That’s a great idea and we all Lao people should be proud of our country.

 

The forth person who responded to my article is the respected Lao person of mine who has Australian citizen. Probably I should call him Eloung KL, please do forgive me if I spell your name wrongly. He is a person who really helps me in all field, especially he is a really positive about Laos. No wonder, I feel that our Lao people living in oversea also love Laos. Living abroad doesn’t mean anything that they do not love Laos. They just seek for a better life. I presume that they can help Lao people in the sense that they can talk and explain to foreigners so that the foreigners can understand Lao people well, at least let them know that we really love peace, we don’t want war. And I agree with his comment as I said earlier on. “If your family was poor then your children were likely staying poor or cannot be rich easily. That’s a true”.  I also agree that Lao people now cannot be lazy anymore. Except planting rice, Lao people still do other thing for selling. And some are good in doing business. The number of Lao businessmen is also increasing. The lazy matter could be meant for the past time Lao people already. Thank you very much for your thought, I repeat the comment which posted by someone.

 

Thank you to person who posted about GNH saying that this GHN set up in practice by King Bhutan. In fact, I would say the GNH is related to philosophy of Thai King, what is called “Sed tha kid pho phieng”. I really appreciate it. I assume that this person is a Thai citizen and educated. And he might have meet with Lao people before or he is about to visit Laos. Thank you for your comment.
Yes, I think, Lao people need to learn from GNH as well. While welcoming investors from outside, our government needs to look on our law and regulation, makes it fair for all sites both our people and investors. Otherwise our people will become poorer, instead of richer. You may remember the case of the salary of 80000 kip/month. Like it or not, that is a real exploitation.

 

Thank you to person who said that our country conditions have made Lao people to be lazy or easygoing life style. That’s partly true. But if we work hard like other nations do, I think, definitely, we would be richer them.

 

Thank you to person who said that our economic growth is normal. Probably he is an economic or at least studying in economic or finance. I understand his point. That if we go to fast Lao people may not be able to adapt to that condition, but he just compared from 1986 -2006, but he forgot to compare from 1975-2006. Anyway, I appreciate his opinion as well.

 

Thank you to all people who I could not mention, who participated in this topic both positive and negative. People can have their own opinions. But I am sure that our readers will make the judgment by themselves. When we, as well as our officals, listen to someone, we of course will make the conclusion by ourselves. It is not good also when you listen to me and you believe me without thinking. That’s a kind of critical thinking. When we listen or hear someone says something, we need to put question “Why or how to find the reason for that? That is a good way for us to be the good readers and listeners.

 

 

Regards,
TSP     

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