Vietnam furniture exported is $3 billion a year business, and 90% of the wood are from Laos. Some of Laos and Vietnam military are in logging business.

Let me see.  Laos is a land lock country.  Due to endless logging, the forest and animal habitat are being destroyed.  The increase of dams ruined the fish habitat and also causing heartache on peoples livelihood. Casinos were built, and then having it run by thugs.  I wonder what's going to happen to the country in the long term.

That doesn't sound good at all. I supported Laos economic development. government is trying to plant more tree to replace old one.


OMD wrote on 3^rd Jun, 2011 at 4:38am:

Agreed Laocowboy. We have to learn from our past mistake and move forward. Government is also trying to plan more tree.

Development is good, but corruption is a problem in one party system country."Absolute power corrupt."

Thats a pretty old video, and I remember reading legislation being passed to preserve the forests. Whether or not it is strictly being enforced or not is one thing, but at least the government recognizes the issue.

There is no tree in Laos. whatever you have seen its just a bushes. All the Old big tree were gone. Nothing lelf.

I been there, I saw it all. Most of our ppl are poor. Those ppl used to find the food in the jungle can't do that no more. There is no jungles in Laos.

UXO are still there. That is only things there to remember.

Thanks to American and Vietcong were fighting and Buck Lao have to paid the price for they sorry assss.

Its never called Laos War, Its called Vietnam War. We were too stupid to get involved in some one else war, that how stupid we were and are.