Lao lottery officials are rigging the national lottery, with winning numbers appearing and disappearing from purchased tickets and only being shown during drawings that are scheduled for unlucky times, according to sources in the communist nation. For example, the number 09 – often regarded as unlucky – appeared as a 5 on purchased tickets for October 14’s drawing and then disappeared from the lottery website and other media outlets only an hour before the drawing, a source told RFA’s Lao Service.

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