Very simple answer.... COMMUNIST.
All Communist states had only one party system.

There is no bebefit  and no advantage on a nation of one party system.. You'll be "labeled"  around the world as a "DICTATOR" nation.

What that mean is you're one of the "BAD BOYS"

Foreign investors are always looking for the political system of a nation before they decide to come and make a major investment.

I don't think so
So why a lot of foreign investors come to invest in Vietnam and China ?

Sabaidee all

For the people who wanted to say many parties are better than 1 partie, I think they must explain clearly for lao people, what need to be done so it could called a party accordingly to LAW. As a citizen of Australia, I understand that before a group of people in Australia who wanted to form a Political party they must have members, all fund raising must fellow the rules, that means those people must receive money from member or people who followed the party, let say that party called Love Water, and the people of Love Water must starting to compaign, tell the people of the country about their Policy, showing and convincing people that Love Water's Policy works better than the government policy something like that.

In Australia each time the Federal Election is held, the country spent a lot of money, for preparation, get things ready.....election places, rooms, boots....computers facility to count the votes....the amount of money to get the election going and done...estimated HUNDRED OF MILLION DOLLARS.

On the other hand if you look at country like EAST TIMOR, it got support from United Nations, australian army, police....for many years for the EAST TIMOR to have many parties....reality is very different, the country is in BAD SHAPE, people fight in the streets...parties did not accept each other in one way or another....which means the political situation is unstable, in this case not many countries wanted to invest in a place which the government could not control about things....so it's not always true that if you have many parties then Rich countries will come and put their money in that country, unless the country is stable. Of course no countries or business people wanted to loose their money.

One person named FOREVER stated that if Lao people get rid of Lao Deng, as he/she said the country will be better according to FOREVER....but forever also said CHINA will become number 1 in the word....he forget CHINA is also a COMMUNIST STATE...so Forever sounded nonsense.....some believe forever is a MAD or CRAZY person, think for yourself. As many people said in one of the other topic involved MULTIPLE PARTIES or many parties, majority of people who discussed about this believed this is not the time for LAO to have such many parties....Lao's resource is not ready yet. I believe it's true....We saw recent day even rich and powerful like JAPAN had many problems, if things are unworkable then the system collapse. Rich countries will recover quickly but if a poor country faced this problem then Society will become chaos, unstable or even become violent as we saw in EAST TIMOR, the member of certain party go and burnt down houses of the OPPOSITED party...city is divided you could not cross this line or something else going to happen...that what in the news told us EAST TIMOR.

Thanks for sharing your tought, i love  it.

It’s really outdated discussion. Please let me say it again. In fact, I do agree with all who mentioned earlier that now in Laos it is not the time to have many party. The reasons are many as somebody has said, but mainly Laos is still a poor country and its people have a low education. Definitely, when our country becomes rich and people mostly are educated, of course, we might be able to talk about such a thing. By then, nobody would want to be the servants of foreigners who want to destroy our country. Now, some even cannot read and write. Some still have problems with what they would eat tomorrow and the like. That is why under this circumstance people can be easily told a lie and welcome to take money and serve foreigners to destroy our country. The only way we can do now is we need ensure stable in our country. This would only make country prosperous. The investors from abroad would like to come to do business in our country. People will get the jobs and then they can live with happiness.
  
Yes, really, I see nothing bad with one party system. As long as the country system is transparent, as long as we can keep our system with no corruption, as long as our country concentrates on people education, the country development would be fine. Please look the example of China. Its GDP growth was more than 10% last year. Experts predict 2050 that China will be the first country in the world. Its secret is a system harmony, making friendly for country development. If you don't like the China example, please look at the example of Singapore, the country I believe that everyone knows quite well. 
 Here, what I actually would like to say is one party system will not disturb any businessmen who want to come to invest they money in Laos. Now, more and more investors come and do business in Laos. That’s why we all are looking for the brighter future, the future where Lao people dream to have, that is prosperity of our society.

you dumb ass, that's the only way that China can have that is one party. Because China have many populations than any other country, and communist is a dictator, it can control its people. However, before you were going call other people mad or crazy I think you need to look at your self first.

FOREVER

...a close-up look of Laos National Assembly building.....

I dont want to get into this whole single party/multi-party argument because really both are imperfect and i think laos should be flexible about the future. If there comes a time when the political system is in need of changing , then change it. "experts" say many things but it is far from certain what china will be in 50 years. It may have fallen apart because of the huge inequalities between urban and rural areas, or because of war over declining natural resources or because of regional geopolitical tensions, and laos needs to be in a position where it can play another card if it needs to. It is silly to say that one system is the best, because that quite simply is just unable to be proven.

That is really great. After 100 years people see they will tell this building is still great. In fact, I was involved in this project. That may be why I tell you that this building is great. If you think to be an architure or structural engineer you should design not for only tomorrow, but design it for 100 years. It's like you will get married with someone, you would think you will not devorce with her tomorrow, but you would think you will love her until you cannot breath, is it right?

Best wishes,

Thank you for your warning webmaster. What about the other guy who called me "Buck Kee Mo and Buck Ha Mung" I think you have to warn him too.

FOREVER

One party, one candidate... you don't have much choice.

Who runs against President Choummaly Xaiyasone?

Oh, I love LAO.
If you love lao you can go visit laos.

But and BBC report went to China and interviewed under age girls working in Clothing factory, making jeans for the west, they found out the living condition is terrible, the owner of the factory told BBC the west countries always forced them to meet their demand, dead line, cheap price....BBC told us a LEVIS jean sells in the western world, from 80 to more than 100 us dollar, how much the girls get, 60 cent out of more than 100, so the gap between the rich and the poor gets wider and wider, western countries also played a part in this ugly matter as well according to BBC. BBC also had a report on this matter this time in RUSSIA, they also told us, during SOVIET UNION the people are not rich but the gap is different now Russia is the country which has the most unequal people on earth.

About Tennamin Square uprise BBC also had a report, but many chineses believed that if the students movements were allowed to destroy CHINA they did not know what CHINA would be now? BBC interviewed young chinese students now, about the guy who stopped the Tank, they said they did not care about it.

Not only CHINA regarded National Security is important but USA does the same thing, BBC and American document showed US Police and National guard also shot students during students demonstrated agaisnt the war in VIETNAM. Many american students were dead, because of the brutality of american police, according to BBC and american document itself. In those year the injustice in USA was so great that Luther King was assassinated, for lao who live in US now they enjoy the freedom of walking around, go around but does not mean they are not controlled by the STATE, as soon as they walk down the streets, in the shopping mall there are all kind of Camera watching them, as they used to know as BIG BROTHER watching you.
But in the 60s black and colour people could not go where the white american go, like WHITE TOILET, BLACK and COLOUR TOILET, the black could not eat in white only take away or restaurtants.....So african black in USA even talked about a black country inside USA, because the injustice at that time.

Not communist chinese had a bloody, dark period.....for chinese leaders at that time they saw students movement were pushed by FOREIGN power ( foreign power was behind ) So the same in USA when students uprised against the government about VIETNAM war, the US government called in National Guard and Police to CRUSH that movement, many american students were shot dead, many went to jail.....american authoritry saw that movement as COMMUNISTS pulling the string, now document with students and polices who involved in that even told us the movement was SPONTANEOUS, it means it's automatically occurred there was no SOviet KGB or chinese communists were involve. There you are. The world is not perfect.

FOREVER you love politics, why don't you run for something ? 

I dont know what any of the last few posts have to do with Laos' being a single party state.

What I got out of the last few posts was:

Uprisings and protests are spawned by "foreign powers"
Black segregation in America somehow relates to the Polit-buro in Laos
People don't care about Tank Man (college students now would have been babies during the time of Tank Man, the Chinese government surpresses any information inside of China about that guy, possibly, thats why they don't care?)

The talk about Blacks and Whites during the 1960 is completely wrong. You make it seem like ALL blacks EVERYWHERE in the U.S. were treated as second class citizens. No, it was the South.

The talk about Freedom in the U.S. is stupid. America is the most independent free country in the world. If you were a good citizen, you wouldn't have to worry about a camera in the mall watching you, because you wouldn't be stealing anything. Unless you have something to hide, security cameras aren't an issue. "Big Brother" does not exist.

What does any of that have to do with the topic at hand anyways?

I saw a word on Lao Paliament house says:  PASATIPATAI

Can anyone be able to plain to me what does it mean?  Do the lao people really have Pasatipatai?  Can say what they want to say? 

Lao government always encourages Lao people to do things in competition, no matter what they do, in Lao word we say:  Kang Kun Kunn (competition) that way you will have a better outcome.

I think it's time for Laos to have another party, that way it's a truely Kang Kun Kunn.  If Lao government has another party to Kang Kun Kunn, I think Laos will develop in a much faster rate than no competion at all.  After Laos belongs to every Laotian, every Laotian should be able to have a voice and the government should give other people a chance to build the country as well.

Kon Wung Dee

Yes Kon Wung Dee, I agree with you 100% that Laos should have at least two or three parties in Laos so that they can compete each other. Kang Kun Kunn. It has been 32 year now since this communist regime in power and they did not do any thing good to Lao people at all. If you can not administer the country good, just step down and let other party administer it. Lao land is belonging to every lao people, not only to a member of communist goverment people. I believe there are many smart lao people out there can do a better job than the current goverment. However, I think it is time for Poun Sahai TOOK KON to step down and let the real PASATIPATAI go into Laos. In addition, living under communist regime, lao people can not say any at all against them. If you say it, like protesting, you will go to prison. (TARD Dum) and they will torture you. In a democracy country like USA or Canada, they don't torture you for politic crime, it happens only with communist like Laos and China.

FOREVER

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I saw a word on Lao Paliament house says:  PASATIPATAI

Can anyone be able to plain to me what does it mean?  Do the lao people really have Pasatipatai?  Can say what they want to say? 

Lao government always encourages Lao people to do things in competition, no matter what they do, in Lao word we say:  Kang Kun Kunn (competition) that way you will have a better outcome.

I think it's time for Laos to have another party, that way it's a truely Kang Kun Kunn.  If Lao government has another party to Kang Kun Kunn, I think Laos will develop in a much faster rate than no competion at all.  After Laos belongs to every Laotian, every Laotian should be able to have a voice and the government should give other people a chance to build the country as well.

Kon Wung Dee

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I wonder wether you want to organize a new party or you want to be a servant of Vang Pao? I doubt in your Wung Dee?

Food for thought for those who do not understand why Laos still needs 1 party.

Western Values

” What exactly are western values? Let’s take a good look. Since 1961, over eight million people from the Third World have died directly at the hands of the US military or indirectly via US-backed and funded regimes.
Source: Casualties in the Third World: Loss of life caused by American invasions or by US-backed and funded regimes since 1960.
Earlier in imperialist colonialist history, around 10 million Congolese died as a result of Belgian forced labor and mass murder in the early 20th century. Tens of millions perished in famines that were avoidable or enforced in British-ruled India. Up to a million Algerians died in their war for independence. Many more examples of brutal, murderous colonialism can be cited, let say Indochina war.
The US has come to see itself as the savior of the world and the supreme arbitrator of each and every nation's future. Nations not prepared to bend to US will are classified as "rogue states" and threatened with brutal, inhuman sanctions and ultimately deadly brute force is utilized. We have barely entered the 21st century and now find the planet returning to a century earlier with the exercise of naked imperialism, all in the name of some supposed western moral values.
The Iraqi resistance has demonstrated that people of different races and cultures do not want to be ruled or dictated to by a foreign power from the other side of the world. Meanwhile, the revelations of widespread criminal behavior by American and British troops are a sad illustration of the fact that purported western moral values are a total farce and a charade, and that western moralizing is nothing short of utter hypocrisy and duplicity.
As the Berlin Wall came down in the late 1980s, some people in Eastern Europe thought of it as an event to celebrate. The United States invaded and bombed Panama only weeks after the Berlin Wall fell. Concurrently the US was also intervening in the elections in Nicaragua to defeat the Sandinistas. When Albania and Bulgaria elected governments not acceptable to Washington, Washington just stepped in and overthrew those governments. Soon came the bombing of the people of Iraq for 40 horrible and merciless days for no good or honest reason. The US was soon off again attacking Somalia for more bombing, mayhem and killing. After that came the dismantling of Yugoslavia.
The empire bombed the people of Yugoslavia for 78 days and nights. Again, for no good or honest reason. Then we have Afghanistan. In all likelihood, they have now killed more innocent civilians in that unfortunate country than were killed on Sept. 11, with more to come as people continue to die from bombing wounds, cluster-bomb landmines, and depleted-uranium toxicity which will continue to devastate the environment and future generations yet unborn. After all these years, they still insist on keeping a stranglehold on Cuba. This is only a partial list!
President Bush has taken the United States back to the archaic dark days of the turn of the last century and will probably go on record as one of the worst US presidents in history. Bush administration officials possess no understanding of history or the regions and peoples they seek to dominate and plunder. Despite record low approval ratings, President Bush has inoculated Americans against any thought that their country is engaging in imperialism. But those outside of his reign of disinformation see his actions for exactly what they are: imperialism. The United States and Britain have always professed the highest motives in seeking to dominate other peoples. However, imperialism has never given birth to democracy, but only to endless wars conducted with a savagery that reveals the utter falsity of US commitment to western civilization or democracy. The imperial mindset sees the people it seeks to civilize or democratize as inferior and this ultimately leads to countless and incessant outrages against these hapless peoples.
Exceedingly pompous Tony Blair was quoted as saying, "And this is not just about security or military tactics -- it is about hearts and minds. It's about inspiring people, persuading them, showing them what our values at their best stand for. And just to state it in these terms underlines how much we have to do."
After 1945, the west decided to adopt fascist methods. Nuremberg only punished a handful of the guilty, most Nazi war criminals ended up free with US help. In 1946, more than 1,000 Nazi scientists were secretly brought to the US. Nazi war criminals became the architects of US policies at home and abroad. Mores and values have deteriorated rapidly in the West in the last several decades as revolutions in technology and society progressed. In Western societies, only the corporate elitist accepted point of view has access to broadcast media, the publishing industry or university faculties. Western values are peddled as superior to all others. Why?
Here we have a few more recent examples of western values:
An American Marine excitedly exclaimed, "It's a sniper's dream, you can go anywhere and there so many ways to fire at the enemy without him knowing where you are."
"Sometimes a guy will go down, and I'll let him scream a bit to destroy the morale of his buddies. Then I'll use a second shot."
"To take a bad guy out," he explains, "is an incomparable 'adrenaline rush.'" He brags of having "24 confirmed kills.”
There’s the case of Army Private Matt Guckenheimer, just returned after a tour of service in Afghanistan who revealed what was supposed to be a secret order from his superiors. "We were told there were no friendly forces," Guckenheimer said. "If there was anybody there, they were the enemy. We were told specifically that if there were women and children to kill them." American soldiers were specifically told to kill women and children on the specific orders of their superiors.
A home movie taken in secret from a rooftop in Basra in southern Iraq shows British soldiers pulling four Iraqi boys in their early teens into their army base after a riot and beating them with batons, then punching and kicking them repeatedly on the body and head and between the legs. Within the space of one minute, some 42 blows are rained on the four teens who did not even have on shoes. One soldier is seen kicking a dead Iraqi in the face. The unidentified cameraman can be heard laughing and urging his colleagues on with vulgarities. The Brits on the home movie are just as gung-ho and turned-on torturers of detainees as the soldiers at Abu Ghraib were. Of course the warped, deviant, perverted abuses of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are already legendary.
"They're fighting for our freedom." No crime is too unthinkable or great, it would appear, to ensure American “freedoms” and western values. The imperialists are dedicated to securing control and domination of the world’s resources and markets. All freedom loving people in the world need to struggle to defeat imperialism and give their support to all those nations and peoples who are resisting the empire and standing up to and defeating the most brutal military power in the world. Freedom loving people need to be educated and enlightened about who their enemies are: those who are sending workers to kill or be killed for this ever insatiable empire, an empire in which they have absolutely no stake, an empire which abuses and represses them and keeps them under thumb in a vacuum of deception, an empire which fails to provide for their basic needs and rights as human beings solely for the benefit and enrichment of corporate elitists.

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Sabaidee ,
One party because Laos is not rich. rich men can get 2 -3 wifes like Sheik Muhamad .
No,No, One party is enough for us. 2-3 party is too busy for us to occupy them  !

Everyone now can understand the kind of democratie that USA give to Irak. It's CLEAR NOW. BEUARRRRK of your Démocratia  !

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JENA, Louisiana : Thousands of demonstrators marched through this small Louisiana town on Thursday protesting racial injustice after stiff criminal charges were brought against a group of black students who beat up a white student in a school fight.

The case, which has become a potent example for civil rights leaders of widespread inequality in the US criminal justice system, comes after a series of race incidents at the high school in Jena.

Racial tensions first erupted after a black student tried to cross an invisible colour line and sit under the schoolyard's "white tree" to be greeted the next morning by nooses hanging from the tree.

Several fights broke out on and off campus afterwards and a fire was set in the school after the authorities refused to expel the three white students who hung up the nooses - long a symbol of anti-black violence in the south - calling it an "adolescent prank."

In most of the incidents, the white students escaped any criminal charges. But tensions flared to a new height when after a December schoolyard brawl six black students were charged with attempted murder.

While the charges against the Jena Six, as they have become known, were eventually reduced, the students still face stiff penalties.

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson likened Thursday's protest to the great civil rights marches in America in the 1950s.

"Just as Little Rock defined desegregation ... today we march, fighting for criminal justice equality," Jackson told the crowd.

"The Department of Justice in Washington's gone silent," he said. "We are intent to have hearings of the matter of criminal justice in Jena because there is a Jena in every town, a Jena in every state."

Critics here accuse the local district attorney of racism for failing to hand out equal punishment to the white students who started fights with their black peers.

"It's not equal," said Tina Jones, the mother of one of the Jena Six.

"The black people get the harsher extent of the law whereas white people get a slap on the wrist," she told CNN.

"I hope the DA (district attorney) will wake up and realise that he's doing the wrong thing and to release these kids and let them go."

But LaSalle Parish district attorney Reed Walters told a press conference with the white victim of the school beating, Justin Barker, standing silently behind him, that the case "is not and never has been about race."

He denounced the students who hung the nooses from a tree last September but said he was unable to prosecute them because it did not qualify as a hate-crime - a conclusion also reached by the region's federal prosecutor.

"This was an awful act," Walters said. "It was not a prank but a vicious and crude statement ... The people who did it should be ashamed of themselves and mortified at the havoc they have unleashed on this community."

President George W. Bush said on Thursday: "The events in Louisiana have saddened me. And I understand the emotions.

"The Justice Department and the FBI are monitoring the situation down there. And all of us in America want there to be, you know, fairness when it comes to justice."

Bush insisted the Republican party had a "good record" on race relations, but Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who is black, seized on the protest to call for change.

"When a noose hangs from a schoolyard tree in the 21st century and young men are treated in a way that is not equal nor just, it is not just an offence to the people of Jena or to the African-American community, it is an offence to the ideals we hold as Americans," he said in a statement.

Uneven sentencing for blacks and whites is common across the country, according to a report by the New York-based Urban League.

African-American men are three times more likely than white men to face jail once they have been arrested: 24.4 percent of blacks arrested in the United States in 2005 ended up in jail compared with 8.3 percent of white men.

They also receive jail sentences that are on average 15 percent longer than whites convicted of the same crime.

The biggest disparity is among men convicted of aggravated assault: black men were sentenced to an average of 48 months in jail, which is 33 percent longer than the average sentence of 36 months received by white men, according to the League's annual State of Black America report. - AFP/de

I love LAO.
Ma Thiao Dan Lao Nam Sao Lao Der.