TOKYO -- Laos borrows from China and other countries only for projects that are both necessary and economically viable, the country's prime minister said on Friday, pushing back against international warnings about his government's debt to Asia's emerging superpower.
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Laotian Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith talks to the Nikkei Asian Review in Tokyo. (Photo by Manami Yamada)
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