Hundreds of millions of dollars won through a lottery ticket will be split between two friends. Oregon Lottery officials announced the winner on Monday at a news conference in Portland. Forty-six-year-old Cheng Saephan and his wife, Duanpen, plan to keep half of the prize money. The other half will be given to a friend, Laiza Chao, who was with him when they bought the winning ticket at the Plaid Pantry convenience store in early April. Chao and her husband are members of the Iu Mien ethnic group, a subsistence farming community that assisted American troops during the Vietnam War. The couple moved to the United States in 1994, and now live in Oregon. The winners can choose to be paid the $1.3 billion in 30 years or a smaller amount over 30 years.

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Several sources in Laos have told RFA that lottery officials are rigging the national lottery to avoid large pay-outs. They are said to manipulate the results of drawing, with numbers that are deemed unlucky or unlikely to be chosen disappearing from purchased tickets. A senior official speaking on condition of anonymity meanwhile has said that private business interests involved in the national lottery include family members of Lao state and national leaders. He has called for government control of the lottery to resume.