Tag: energy
Workshop held for Lao hydropower plant
The Mekong River Commission organised a consultation workshop in HCM City yesterday for the Pak Lay hydropower project proposed on the Mekong’s mainstream in Xayaburi Province in north-western Laos.
Can tourism boost Lao’s economy?
Could tourism be a better road forward for Laos now that its hydropower development schemes are increasingly being called into question?
Development of hydropower ‘must be safe’, PM tells World Economic Forum
The PM was responding to a question raised about whether the fracture of a dam in Laos’ Attapeu province would affect Laos’ approach to hydropower development.
Vietnam raises wind tariffs
Global Wind Energy Council says the Vietnamese wind market is ‘one to watch’.
More problems to come for Cambodia from Lao dam failure
Though floods from the Lao dam collapse occured two months ago, people are yet to experience the worst of it.
Residents still unhappy over Chinese Tigyit coal project
Myanmar’s first coal power plant is allegedly discarding hazardous waste into the Tigyit stream, which is connected to sources of drinking water.