The Lao government has approved more than 6,000 investment projects with combined funding of nearly $37 billion since the introduction of the market-oriented economy in the 1980s.
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China’s Belt and Road keeps steaming ahead in Laos
Covid-19 pandemic has not slowed Beijing’s increasingly crucial plan to build a railway connecting China to mainland SE Asia
Laos pushes ahead with sixth Mekong River dam project
The Sanakham hydropower plant, with an estimated cost of $2.073 billion, will be developed by Datang Sanakham Hydropower company, a subsidiary of China’s Datang International Power Generation Co. Ltd.
Laos to undertake prior consultation for Sanakham hydropower project
Lao PDR will undertake the Mekong River Commission’s (MRC) prior consultation process for its Sanakham hydropower project, the sixth proposed project on the Mekong mainstream. The run-of-river dam will operate continuously year-round and produce 684 megawatts of electricity.
Lao Dam Disaster: UN Rights Experts Call For Justice Two Years On
“Governments, as well as companies and banks, stand to profit handsomely from the hydropower project, yet the communities who lost everything have received only broken promises,” the experts report.
Survivors of PNPC Dam Collapse in Laos Flee Deteriorating Relocation Centers
Nearly two years after the worst dam collapse in Laos in decades, thousands of survivors have fled from temporary relocation centers as conditions in the centers go from bad to worse,
Southeast Asia’s hydropower boom grinds to a halt as COVID-19 stalls projects
The government of Laos has already ordered a temporary halt to all hydropower construction in the country, after a mining company worker tested positive for the virus.
Bushfires destroy 100,000 hectares of forests
According to initial reports, the bushfires destroyed 116,678 hectares of forests in Namha National Protected Area and other protected forests.