The Laos Government is preparing to build the seventh of nine planned large-scale mega dams on the Mekong River in 2022. The latest project in its...
The Mekong River Commission reports China has notified downstream neighbours it is holding back the Mekong River flow at a hydropower dam on the waterway’s upper...
Thailand’s Department of Water Resources has warned eight provinces on the Mekong river to prepare for water shortages. Chinese cargo ships have now stopped operating on...
VIENTIANE – Another 10 bodies have been recovered on Thursday and Friday, bring the death toll of the dam collapse in Laos to 23, Lao...
ATTAPEU, Laos – Many victims of the floods that devastated several villages in Sanamxay district of Attapeu province in southern Laos have returned to their...
PAKSONG, Laos – Petchinda Chantamart first heard what sounded like a bomb going off a few miles away. Then came a curious noise, like a...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Prime Minister has instructed officials to provide assistance to Laos, following the collapse of Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in the southern...
CHIANG RAI – The Mekong River Commission (MRC) announced yesterday that Laos has formally notified the Commission of its intention to construct the Pak Lay dam...
BANGKOK – A Chinese-backed plan for Cambodia to build the Mekong River’s biggest dam would destroy fisheries that feed millions and worsen tensions with Vietnam,...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The controversial Xayaburi hydro-electric dam project in northern Laos may have already begun, despite countries, including Cambodia, requesting further studies to assess...
One day before China’s National Day celebration, Myanmar’s President Thein Sein called a halt to the on-going Myitsone hydroelectric dam project that was being...
