The $31 million Enhancing Systematic Land Registration Project will be run by the government’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment over the next five years. Its objective is to modernize land administration and scale up land registration to support the country’s aim of extending the benefits of recognized land rights to more of the Lao population.
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Laos-China Railway to be green and low-carbon railway
Significance lies in environmental and ecological protection by using the same building standards and cutting-edge technology utilized in China to decrease environmental risks, while the electricity transmission pole project has helped train local people in grid operation and management with the goal of creating jobs and assuring power supply.
Housing complete for villagers displaced by Nam Thuen 1 Hydropower Project
Construction of the project began in June 2016, at a total value of USD 1.335 billion, with a 70 percent loan from a Thai banking group and a 30 percent contribution from stakeholders.
10 rivers at risk from hydropower even though we can now tackle climate change without damming them
Mekong Blues (Laos) – Hydropower dams on the lower Mekong in Laos would threaten the future of the world’s most productive freshwater fisheries, the stability of the densely populated delta, and the river’s biodiversity – including critically endangered river dolphins and Mekong giant catfish. 60 million people depend on the health of the lower Mekong.
EDL-Gen selling more bonds
Laos’s hydrodam operator EDL has completed the filing and is now ready to issue two series of bonds, with a total amount of 3,700 million baht (US$114 million) and coupon rates of 5.90 percent and 6.50 percent over three or four years, respectively.
Thanaleng Dry Port, Vientiane Logistics Park to drive Lao economy, PM’s aides told
Planned to connect to the Laos-China Railway, which is slated to open for services in December this year, the Thanaleng Dry Port and Vientiane Logistics Park will link to the intended global transport network leading to Europe via the railway.
Feasibility study scheduled for new Triangle Special Economic Zone
Phongsaly provincial authorities have given the green light to a Chinese business group to carry out survey and a feasibility study on the development of the 250 square kilometer Triangle Special Economic Zone (SEZ), located at the shared border between Laos, China and Vietnam.
Thanaleng Dry Port, Vientiane Logistics Park will drive Laos’ land-link, mega-project effort
The dry port and logistics park is one of four mega projects under the Lao Logistics Link (LLL) project, which PTLH has been granted a concession to develop. The other three projects are the Vung Ang seaport in Vietnam’s central Ha Tinh province, which the Lao developer and its Vietnamese partner will jointly develop and operate; a planned railway connecting Vientiane with the seaport; and a planned 2,000MW coal-fired power plant in central Khammuan province.
