Laos banks on new high-speed railway to draw tourists and investment - A special write-up from The Straits Times

The men arrived in dark jackets, and the women in fine woven silk skirts. They filed into the gleaming railway station under a red sign that said "Vientiane" in Lao and Chinese.

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