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Officials in the communist country of Laos are rigging the national lottery system, manipulating the drawing process to avoid large payouts, sources in the capital city of Vientiane tell RFA’s Lao Service. The numbers that appear in the drawings often vanish from purchased tickets, or change from one number to another. For example, on Oct. 14, the winning number 509 appeared only as 5 on tickets sold throughout the day of the drawing, but it changed to 134 minutes before the drawing took place. Private business interests responsible for the lottery include families with connections to the nation’s leaders.