Laos’ economic development depends alot on mining and hydropower, which breeds new risk for the country’s ambitions to graduate from the United Nation’s Least Developed Country status in 2024.
Category: Laos
Laos, Vietnam to open new shared border crossings
Laos and Vietnam are preparing to upgrade two more local crossing points to official border crossings to facilitate international visits in the northern and southern provinces of the two countries.
Laos is on course to graduate from least developed country status
If at least the current level of progress is maintained, Laos will graduate from LDC status three years after its next 2021 triennial review in 2024.
Still No Progress on Seventh Anniversary of Sombath Somphone’s Disappearance
Before his abduction, Sombath had challenged massive land deals negotiated by the government that had left thousands of rural Lao villagers homeless with little paid in compensation.
Laos blames droughts on climate change
For the first half of 2019, the rainfall in Nam Ou basin, the biggest of the Mekong tributaries in Laos, decreased 41 percent compared to the same period in 2018 and continued to drop to 29 percent during July to September.
As 7th Anniversary of Lao Activist’s Disappearance Approaches, More Remain Missing
Before his abduction, Sombath had challenged massive land deals negotiated by the government that had left thousands of rural Lao villagers homeless with little paid in compensation, sparking rare, popular protests.
Tigers Extinct in Laos
The snaring crisis in Southeast Asia appears to have claimed the lives of the country’s last wild tigers.
Cross-border cooperation crucial to conserve wildlife
20 Laotian and 17 Thai law enforcement representatives worked with WWF to develop skills needed to identify wildlife products and enforce new, strict wildlife laws at border zones.