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Linking up to Laos

Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 23/01/2014

» Corn was once grown in the fields separating Ban Don Mahawan, a hamlet in Chiang Khong district, from the banks of the mighty Mekong. Nowadays this land sustains a very strange "crop" indeed _ huge concrete pillars sprout from the soil, erected to support the new bridge linking Chiang Rai, our northernmost province, to Huay Xai across the river in Laos.