Lao residents are voicing increasing inconvenience at the look in the nation of signboards at business locations and constructing sites composed just in Chinese, seeing them as a sign of their effective northern next-door neighbor’s growing financial impact in the impoverished one-party communist state. The signs, often with words composed likewise in Lao however in […]

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China-invested banana plantations in Laos are sickening Lao villagers exposed to farming chemicals, however likewise provide an earnings for the neighborhoods in which the farms are positioned, according to sources in the one-party communist state. Villagers dealing with the farms end up being worn out and weak after just 2 or 3 years dealing with […]

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The Lao federal government has actually moved on plans to build what would be the nation’s seventh big dam on the Mekong River, another project in the nation’s enthusiastic technique to end up being the “Battery of Southeast Asia” in the face of deepening social and ecological issues. Locals of Laos and Thailand, along with […]

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China compounded a drought that ravaged fishing and farming neighborhoods on the Mekong River in 2015 by limiting the circulation of big quantities of water downstream from 11 of its dams, a U.S. research study company stated in a study launched Monday. Satellite measurements of “surface wetness” showed that the Chinese dams in the Upper […]

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The nearly-finished railway project that would link landlocked Laos with China is dealing with construction delays due to workforce scarcities arising from the coronavirus crisis, according to city government authorities. Laos, which reported its first 2 validated cases of the lethal infection just late last month, had actually been spared from the results of the […]

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