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 ...

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, ...

The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic terrorism and has scrapped a tool used to track such investigations, in a shift that could undermine law enforcement’s ability to ...

Five more dams are under construction in China. Downstream, in Laos and Cambodia, 11 major dams—the first on the main stem of the lower Mekong—are either proposed or already being built.

VIENTIANE: (Bernama-Lao News Agency) The Lao Department of Energy Industry Safety Management confirmed Friday (March 28) that hydropower dams across Laos were unaffected by the 7.7-magnitude ...

The dam near Luang Prabang - both a World Heritage site and an seismically active zone - is “an irresponsible gamble,” experts argue. From a popular television show to a tragic dam collapse ...

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 project has also left Laos saddled with costly debt repayments, with over half of the country's total external debts now ...

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.

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 ...