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Land for Chinese Investor and Lao People have no rights!
 Don’t value 400 bags of dollar more than 400 families:  Lao Proverb:  Yahen Kair Gnuene Saine Thai Tair Haihen Kair Pai Saine Meung
 Lao government is now to build a giant stadium in the means of Laos.  That will put Laos into more debt to the Chinese investors and/or its government.  What Lao government is end up doing is to clear the land for those investors by asking people who live in that area around 400 families to leave the land where most of them are inherently got from their parents or else.  Some of the lands are already been entitle to individual by the Vientiane municipality authority.  How could government is to do such thing to the people who supposed to live peacefully, not to count wealthily, in this country?.
 For Government of Laos
The government is to allow long long term lease to these investors for the area of 1000ha, while area for sport stadium covers only 120ha.  For other 890ha will be allocated to Chinese investors, with no clue what are they going to do.  Would that be that you have more debt and selling your own countries namely people’s properties out? Or would that be that you have been paid with large sum of money under table by the investors? Or would that be that you see better future for the country?.  But wouldn’t you be a guardian to your own people? Or wouldn’t you think that this will become another Chinese town?, Or wouldn’t you think how much these Lao people love their land, and used to live their life for long time though less than 1 dollar a day, but they never blame on you.  They stay by your side.  Now when it turns to be better and developed, you just take it away from them with no single sense was signal.  Wouldn’t you think how many people will suffer?.  How much turmoil/rebel it will create? 
 As government, you should only allow investors to lease publicly owned, stay away from individual entitlement.  If investors really want to rent, let them negotiate with people themselves.  Why bother to mis-use your power.  Don’t you think that by giving favor to only special friendship but harming its own citizen are the worse case ever in this globalize era, and in the eyes of other countries’ investors.  Don’t you think how big it will affect on your country reputation, do you want only Chinese or Vietnamese investors to develop this country, ask yourself?.
 Last on this section, how could you develop market economy if not given a right title to the land to its citizen.  Don’t just say, but action needs too.  Pls don’t repeat the same mistake, as in history, how many in abroad are turning against you?
 For Lao People
We are barely living with two hands, work hard in the farm, earn less than 1 dollar a day.  We are so proud to be Lao.  We like to live in peace, no matter how poor we are, we still live happily in the country with family and be love farm land.  It is now about the time where we have to live without knowing in advance where the resettlement will be.
 We Lao should work together to come to the right solution.  We have the right to protect our own property.
 Chinese investors approached government with some offers and plan in their head that we would never never know.  This area will be flooded with Chinese in the future.  Lao people will have to hide in the jungle for another 60 years if not more, if not for a life time.
 For Investors
You need to have ethic in your mind, don’t you think.  Either you or government of Laos offers that piece of land, wouldn’t you think of ethical or sympathy to the people who live there.  I know you don’t have this mind set, so I have not much to say about you…for you is money talk.
 Lastly, just want to again mention that Don’t value 400 bags of dollars worth more than 400 families of your citizen.  It is Lao Proverb:  Yahen Kair Gnuene Saine Thai Tair Haihen Kair Pai Saine Meung.  This is not just the only one resettlement cases, or land seized cases…what about Nam Tuen 2 area, Don Chan hotel areas, Lao-ITEEC and many more.  To be fair let the individual deal with investors ok if they want to lease the land.  Whether or not to come to agreement, government should step aside.  Bare also in mind, no free lunch for any assistance you received.
 Any idea on this issue….please.cryconfused

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samakomlao


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Good points to ponder !

when we get ones, we have to loose ones, but how to have a smart loose, that's things we have to think about carefully.

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This will force upcoming generations to stray away from the farm and more towards other skills they can learn and use.

I see the up and downside of this.

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Anonymous

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The investors handover white envelope to them , then immediatly give a signasure.

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Anonymous

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Anonymous wrote:

This will force upcoming generations to stray away from the farm and more towards other skills they can learn and use.

I see the up and downside of this.


Some how I agree with you, but this is not about the shifting from agriculture to industrialisation, but about the right of ownership being violated.



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It's going to be china town/vietnam town to begin with. Laotian is going to be minority and the entire country will be filled with ten million people and more to come from china and vietnam. Chinese / vietnamese languages are being taught in schools now. What is the new generation will be ?
This is a big issue for lao officials who are in power to solve these problems before it's too late.

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Dear members, I would like to ask a question, I`m not that a pessimistic but in my opinion, the real trouble is that we will not be able to provide food for ten or fifteen million of people,
although now, we still have plenty of agogo thai foods in every corner arround the country ... So, in the future, the real benificiary of agricultural production and other area will always be thai, or vietnameses or chinese but very small number lao ...and on the other hand, the environment and weather of our country, even the soil is not very good for agriculture... it will be an exellent pretext for agricultural goods import flowing from neighbouring countries which are much better and cheaper, in this case, what is your opinion about this question : will lao people be richer or poorer ?

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Laos is small country compare to other three main agriculture exporters in the region or world.  So, it's true that we could not compete in all agricultural product instead we target at a few niche market such as coffee, silk...  But any how, we need to shift to industrialised production.

But the issue posted here is whether should the local investors be more involve in these shifting, should the individual provide more ownership to the land to be more productive and give them more confidence on land that they will value added and not taken away over night.

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