Live broadcast of today’s Phattana lottery results, streaming directly from the prize room. Tonight, August 9, 2023 at 8:00 PM. This live broadcast will report the results of 6 numbered draws for Pattana lottery, Tham Fun lottery 4/40 and Pattana lottery 5/45.

Sources in Laos tell RFA that lottery officials in the communist nation are rigging the national lottery, manipulating winning numbers to avoid large pay-outs. The sources say that private business interests with a stake in the lottery have ties to top state leaders and that lottery drawing numbers sometimes disappear from purchased tickets before they are notified of their winnings. They also say that the national lottery should be brought under government control. The caller spoke on condition of anonymity. By Ounkeo Souksavanh for RFA’s Lao Service.