Korean resident offers condolences to the people of Laos over an accident at a dam construction site in July that resulted in multiple fatalities.
Category: Laos
More talk on Pak Bang Dam, but is anyone listening?
Thais urge Chinese project developer, Datang Corp, to conduct a transboundary study to resolve outstanding issues for the third dam planned for the Lower Mekong River.
200 years before Laos cleared of US bombs
In the world’s most heavily bombed country, 20 million UXO have been cleared in the 45 years since clandestine US war ended, leaving 80 million still to be dug out and defused.
Collapsed Lao dam ‘was built on a sinkhole’
Laos has kept the true scale of the disaster under wraps because it would jeopardize dozens of other dams envisaged under its plan to be the “Battery of Southeast Asia.”
Chinese dams ramp up Lao external debt
Analysts predict increasing difficulty with mounting loans from China
Bureaucratic Chaos Rife in Hours Before Laos Dam Burst
Government ill-equipped to handle the emergency, with notices going up and down the chain of command, redundant communications and general confusion about when to start evacuations.
Incentives needed to attract investment in special economic zones
A recent survey suggests that Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand have also established SEZs and are offering greater incentives than Laos.
Laos: China is Building, West is Destroying and Spreading Nihilism
(Opinion) It is one of those complex stories that are so difficult to tell, and yet they should, they have to be shared.
“I feel helpless and useless” – struggles since Lao dam collapse
Three months since the dam failure cut a path of destruction through 13 villages, many communities are finally able to move into government-built temporary housing.