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![Farmers moonlight during the dry season prospecting for gold along the banks of the Mekong. Most of the panners are women and...](http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/12dfa428-0c62-11e0-9c12-2fbe06aa7196/6989400128_xgaplus.jpg)
![Rice sifting in Pak Beng, a village not far from the Mekong river's big Laotian loop.](http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/1a1d04d8-0c62-11e0-943d-4d5f95eac112/6989400127_xgaplus.jpg)
Rice sifting in Pak Beng, a village not far from the Mekong river's big Laotian loop.
Author: Michael Yamashita
©Michael Yamashita
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