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Laos Image from Google Maps BANGKOK mdash; A United Nations human rights expert has urged communist-ruled Laos to focus less on foreign-invested dam and railway contracts and devote more resources to helping its children and the poor.The U.N. rapporteur on poverty, Philip Alston, said Thursday that Laosrsquo; impoverished economy can only thrive if its leaders do a better job of educating and caring for all of its people. The current strategy of favoring big-ticket projects with Chinese investors and granting big concessions for land and other resources favors a wealthy elite and is leaving many others behind, he said.Article continues after this advertisement Alston made the remarks in a news conference livestreamed from Laosrsquo; capital, Vientiane, after he toured parts of rural Laos, including an area devastated by a dam collapse last year.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFONBI files r
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The Commission on Human Rights CHR on Thursday said the proposal to shut down social media accounts linked to terrorism could impinge individualsrsquo; right to privacy.The State must acknowledge that the proposal necessarily entails surveillance power, which impinges on the right to privacy of communication and correspondence as well as the sacred right to private life, CHR said in a statement.CHR was reacting to the proposal of Senators Panfilo Lacson and Gringo Honasan to task the Department of Information and Communications Technology DICT to shut down social media accounts linked to terrorism. This proposal will be include
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