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Anonymous Reader :

Local police in Vang Vieng turned blind eye to this drug issues, buecause they don't get paid enough from the government of Laos. The drug dealers make a better living than the police. So once the police was paid a big amount of money from the drug dearlers, of course they willl pretend there's no drugs business in the area. Police's salary in Vang Vieng probably $100.00/month. Drug dealers probably make about $10,000.00/month, imagined that...

Feb 27, 2012 02:08 PM

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Anonymous Reader :

China Communist dopesn't want to decrease the production of opuin. They wanted to make Opuin as a trategic weapon to be powerful in all over the world. Which counter ever ery to suspress the opuin is his enemy like Burma, Laos, even Thailand but no border with him and American Military Base made Thailand be relax.
No strange about this new , it was like tridition.

Feb 25, 2012 06:09 PM

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Anonymous Reader :

It is even worse than this because the police make huge money arresting drug users and only releasing them after payments in excess of $1000

Feb 25, 2012 03:46 PM

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