Laos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...sections of Yunnan, China, of S Myanmar, of the Vietnamese and Cambodian plateaus, and large stretches of N Thailand. In 1707, however...friendship in 1977. In the early 1990s Laos abandoned economic communism for capitalism, but the party retained tight political control...