Laos' Communist Party gathers to pick leaders

The secretive ruling Communist Party of Laos opened its five-yearly congress on Monday, a rare and significant event which decides who runs the country and sets its economic priorities. The communists have ruled the impoverished Southeast Asian nation since 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War, which spilled into Laos and saw the country blanketed by bombs in a secret war led by the CIA.

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