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Colombo Plan Aids Southeast Asians
A six year Colombo Plan aims to raise living standards for about 570 million people in South and Southeast Asia. The $5.28 billion program, approved by an international committee in Colombo, Sydney, and London in 1950, funds projects from a large dam to universal free schooling for children in eight nations. Burma, Thailand, Indonesia and Indochina are invited to participate.
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South
Southeast Asia
British Commonwealth
Hoover Dam
India
Singapore
Pakistan
Ceylon
Federation of Malaya
North Borneo
Sarawak
Brunei
Colombo
Sydney
Australia
London
Burma
Thailand
Indonesia
Indochina