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Laos royal to sell family treasures

Chao Soymala Inieum na Jampasak, 67, is selling her collection of royal jewelry and antique silks to pay for the tuition fees of more than 200 monks from Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bhutan, Nepal and Chiang Tung City studying at the the Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She fled Laos to Thailand after the Laotian revolution of 1975.

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