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Tong Lee Seung Industrial Development gained permission to excavate 3 square kilometres in Xieng Khouang province’s Phaxay district

The country has “extremely strict” standards for issuing permits for prospecting for minerals, it said, so companies and individuals that do this without a permit risk being detained.