The Lao government’s determination to plow ahead with construction of the controversial US$3.5-billion Xayaburi hydropower dam in northern Laos puts the mighty Mekong River’s spectacular biodiversity, ...

Construction work is marching ahead at the Xayaburi dam site in northern Laos and risks making a mockery of the decision last December by Mekong countries to delay building the dam on the Mekong ...

The dam, able to produce 920 megawatts of electricity, hopes to sell 95% of its supply to the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat). Cross-border impacts of the proposed dam are ...

The China-backed Pak Lay hydropower project is just one of nine dams that the Lao government has planned for the Mekong River. UNESCO experts insist that a huge dam would destroy the ...

VIENTIANE: Former Electricite du Laos (EDL) officials and four contractor ... signed by the developer stated that construction of the dam would start in 2013 and finish in 2016, but the project ...

ThailandThe hunger for electricity in Thailand is driving dam construction on the lower Mekong in Laos and Cambodia. Bangkok’s CentralWorld complex houses some 500 shops, a hotel, and an ice ...

A BBC team has gained access to the worst affected areas in Laos following a ban on foreign journalists. The $1.2bn dam collapsed after heavy rain fall during the monsoon. The secretive communist ...

PETALING JAYA: Mega First Corp Bhd, the developer of the Don Sahong hydroelectric plant (DSHP) in Laos, has said that its project is unaffected by the dam breach incident at a nearby development.

VietNamNet Bridge - The hydropower dam collapse in Laos should be seen as a valuable lesson about dam safety, according to Dao Trong Tu from the Vietnam River Network. Rescuers are racing to find ...

French energy giant EDF is planning the construction of a 240 MW floating solar power plant at the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower plant on the Nam Theun River, in Laos. The ambitious scheme, which would ...

Kensuke Yamaguchi is a project assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. Laos' National Power Development Plan (NPDP), published in 2020, marked a critical turning point in the country's ...

The cost-cutting and lack of oversight that led to the dam's collapse plague other hydropower projects across the country.