Why the loss of RFA and VOA matters to Lao language news followers
For several decades, Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA) have been providing unbiased and open news coverage in Lao language on news topics that media restrictive countries such as Laos don't typically provide.
For a country like Laos where Lao language news is scarce, RFA and VOA diversifies the way people get their news and broadens their perspective. The loss of these two news sources would be significant.