ข่าว2 : clinton pays historic visit to Laos
Vientiane, July 11 (xinhua) – in a historic move, U.S. secretary of state Hilary Clinton visited Vientiane, Laos’s capital, on Wednesday to improve ties and for talks on key topics.
The visit marks the first time an U.S. secretary of state has visited the country since 1955, when the Lao civil war was in full swing and the U.S.-backed royalist faction was in power. The current communist government came to power in 1975.