Out of 4,411 families negatively affected by the project, only about 230 of them have been compensated. For many families, the compensation amount hasn’t been set but their land has already been given away.
Category: Laos
Climate change and education help from Singapore
Areas such as water supply and demand management, water quality management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, meteorology and hydrology management and operation, pollution control, and environment planning and monitoring.
Laos approves Tadsakoi hydropower plant
The Tadsakoi hydropower project has an installed capacity of 30MW, and construction is expected to finish within 42 months.
UN Volunteer helps prepare communities in Lao PDR for climate-related disasters
The partnership has contributed to the placement of many specialized professionals and young people from diverse backgrounds to support communities to become stronger in face of aggressive changes in the weather and the environment.
Laos ups electricity trade
Laos plans to increase exports to Vietnam to 3,000MW by 2025 and to more than 5,000MW by 2030. Laos has also agreed to sell 9,000MW to Thailand by 2025, up from 4,260MW presently.
Energy, mining projects need careful study: Lao PM
Sisoutlith has called for the energy and mining sector to make greater use of natural resources to maximize sustainable incomes from various projects nationwide.
Survivors of Lao dam collapse want to grow rice, not bananas on compensatory land
Survivors of Laos’ worst flooding in decades are at odds with the government after land they were promised in compensation was granted to a Chinese-backed firm to grow bananas.
Laos can ‘manage’ debt to China, PM insists
“The observers who have concern for Laos in terms of debt repayment … may not have enough or sufficient information on how the government assesses those projects,” says Laotian Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith.