Former CIA-backed rebels in northern Thailand now invite tourists

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The grandchildren of anti-Communist Chinese fighters who fled 70 years ago are now opening their former hideaways to tourists. They no longer traffic in opium; they have tea plantations instead. The World’s Patrick Winn has the story.

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