Pedal-powered Internet project to bring Laos village online

Thursday, February 13, 2003

BAN PHON KHAM, Laos -- Villagers in this remote jungle hamlet have lived for years without electricity or telephones, relying on occasional visitors and a sluggish postal system for news of the outside world.

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