Neighbours cash-in as West sits out quiet boom in Laos Reply

Vientiane

Reposted from Reuters
By Martin Petty

The Japanese cars and sport utility vehicles that clog the streets of Laos’s once sleepy capital are testament to the changes quietly under way in a county once seen as a basket case isolated for decades behind Asia’s bamboo curtain. More…

Laos looks to become a new market frontier Reply

Lao Securities Exchange

Reposted from the Wall Street Journal
By James Hookway

Tired of fusty old outposts such as Bangladesh, Nigeria or Mongolia? Try the world’s newest—and possibly smallest—stock market, the Laos Securities Exchange. More…