Energy

“Space data offers instant clues to cause of deadly Laos dam disaster”: Stanford Professor

Space data gleaned from satellites has been used to create a hypothesis on the cause of the collapse of the saddle dam D at the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy project in Attepeu province.Bangkok-based professor Richard Meehan from Stanford University in the United States’ has been investigating the dam’s ...

Laotian Times editor

Laos receives first ever fuel imports from China

A Lao company has imported Euro 5 emission standard diesel from China for the first time, making it a historic occasion for Laos and expanding trade between the two nations.Over 64 tonnes of diesel were handed over by PetroChina Company to Laos’ Nationwide Trading Petroleum ...

Times Reporters

Chinese dams ramp up Lao external debt

BANGKOK — In its rush to become the “battery” of Southeast Asia, Laos is accepting more Chinese loans to build dams, ensuring the already debt-strapped country falls ever deeper into China’s pocket. More ...

MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR

China starts exporting petroleum to Laos

BOTEN, Laos, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — With over 64 ton diesel, handed over from PetroChina to a Lao company at Laos-China border, the first export of Chinese refined oil to Lao market was made on Wednesday.PetroChina International (Yunnan) Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of PetroChina group, ...

Yang Yi

Energy Efficient Data Center Handed Over To Local Ministry

(KPL) The Laos Energy Efficient Data Center (LEED) has been handed over to the Ministry of Science and Technology.The handover ceremony took place on 26 Oct More ...

KPL

Laos dam collapse: bombshell accusations, few answers (video)

Questions, accountability concerns, and controversies continue to swirl around the Laos dam disaster in July that killed more than 40 villagers, as evidenced by a range of new reports that stretch from South Korea to Thailand.More ...

AEC news editor

Investigator: Dam Project Killing Dolphins, Hurting Fishing and Tourism Industries

A member of Cambodia’s Supreme Council for Recommendations on Wednesday told RFA’s Khmer Service that local authorities are utilizing legal loopholes to avoid adhering to regulations that would protect the biodiversity of the Mekong River.Kong Monika led the Council’s team in investigating the impact of ...

Eugene Whong

In Laos, a World Bank 'model' dam and the myth of sustainable hydropower

BANGKOK — It wasn’t a flood. It was a tsunami, Premrudee Daorung said of the wall of water that tore through the forests of Laos’ Attapeu province, snapping timber like matchsticks and flattening entire villages.More ...

Kelli Rogers

Homeless flood victims to have 500 modular houses

Dam construction companies have ordered 450 modular housing units, worth over 29 billion kip, from overseas to accommodate families who still have nowhere to live after they lost their homes in the flood that hit Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, in July.Homeless families will also have ...

Times Reporters

Govt presses for progress in dam collapse enquiry

The government cabinet has told an ad hoc committee to remain focused and to make progress in determining the root cause of the collapse of a dam in southern Laos in July which left dozens of people dead.More ...

Times Reporters

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