Lottery officials in the communist country of Laos are manipulating winning numbers to avoid large pay-outs, sources in the Southeast Asian nation tell RFA’s Lao Service. Frequently, numbers appearing in drawings disappear from purchased tickets or are deemed unlucky and canceled before the drawing, they say. In the case of the October 14 winning number 509, for example, it disappeared from tickets sold throughout the day of the drawing until only 10 minutes before the actual drawing took place.

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Saephan, who is a member of the Iu Mien ethnic group that migrated to the United States as refugees in the wake of the Vietnam war, will split the prize with his wife, Duanpen, and their daughter. They plan to take half of the money and donate the other half to charity, Saephan said at a news conference in Portland.