On September 26, the Truong Son Wind Power Complex, with a total installed capacity of 600MW, completed its grid connection, testing phase, and officially entered commercial operation. Located atop ...

SINGAPORE – Singaporean Benny Kong cannot pinpoint the exact moment he discovered his entrepreneurial streak. But one of his earliest memories of business acumen dates back to when he was 14 years old ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Laotian government on Friday to implement key recommendations regarding enforced disappearances and violations of fundamental civil and political rights. The ...

NANNING, China: Laos is pushing ahead with its ‘Three Hubs’ vision to boost digital growth, green energy and regional connectivity through stronger links with China and Asean. Deputy Minister of ...

Laos’ ambition to become the “battery of Southeast Asia” has left the country awash with surplus electricity, but burdened by soaring debts from a decades-long dam-building spree. Now, in a bid to ...

The idea of an investigation took shape when I came across a familiar Vietnamese company, with a track record of deforestation in Laos, investing in durian farms. Media reports documenting how Chinese ...

In a move analysts see as both a survival strategy and a calculated signal of dissatisfaction with Asean, Laos has joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as a dialogue partner. The ...

Laos’ government has longstanding plans to turn the landlocked country of 8 million people into “the battery of Southeast Asia” by exporting electricity generated by hydropower dams along the Mekong ...

Fisherman catch fish in the Mekong River near a construction site for the Luang Prabang Dam, in Luang Prabang, Laos, Jan. 28, 2024 (AP photo by Sakchai Lalit). Laos’ government has longstanding plans ...

Fifteen Hmong and Laotian immigrants from Michigan who were detained by ICE in Detroit in late July were deported to Laos this week, arriving in the capital city of Vientiane on Wednesday. All 15 had ...

Secretive shops posing as cafés, museums and cultural experiences are selling illegal wildlife products such as ivory, rhino horn, bear bile, pangolin scales and tiger bones in Laos, often at inflated ...

Laos, a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, suffers immense corruption and oppressive censorship. Freedom tech like Nostr and Bitcoin offer ways around it. A few weeks ago, a notification on Nostr ...