Some random facts about Laos
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| Internet Service Providers (ISPs): | 1 (2000) |
| Legal system: | based on traditional customs, French legal norms and procedures, and socialist practice |
| HIV/AIDS - deaths: | less than 200 (2003 est.) |
| Industrial production growth rate: | 15.7% (2006 est.) |
| Illicit drugs: | estimated opium poppy cultivation in 2005 was 5,600 hectares, about a 45% decrease from 2004; estimated potential opium production in 2005 was 28 metric tons, a significant decrease from 200 metric tons in 2003; unsubstantiated reports of domestic methamphetamine production; growing domestic methamphetamine problem |
Saravan, Laos