InDrive ride-hailing app faces deletion in Laos
Ride-hailing app inDrive is under risk of being scrapped in Laos after recent reports of sexual assaults by drivers that raised concerns over a lack...
Category : Laos
New mega-dam takes shape on the Mekong River in Laos
The headlong rush to dam the Mekong River in Southeast Asia has been highlighted by rare footage from a major dam under construction near the...
Laos investigates executives who oversaw long-delayed hydro dam
Lao authorities are investigating officials responsible for a hydropower dam that is a decade behind schedule in another sign of problems surfacing from the country’s...
Rise in HIV/AIDS cases in Laos tied to dam and mine projects, NGO official says
Young Lao women are contracting HIV/AIDS after selling sex to some of the thousands of workers who have come into the country in recent years...
2 Lao women warn of pitfalls of agreeing to ‘sham marriages’ in China
A Lao woman who traveled to China for an arranged marriage warned others to demand legal documents and to have in-person meetings with potential husbands...
Shop explosion, fire in northern Laos kills 4, injures others
A fire and explosion at a Chinese-owned shop in northern Laos on Friday killed four people, including Chinese nationals, and injured several others, the Chinese...
Defying orders, Chinese miner hasn’t stopped operating near 2 sinkholes in Laos
Defying orders from Lao officials, a Chinese-owned potash mining company hasn’t stopped operating near two massive sinkholes in central Laos, a Lao official, a worker...
Freeze to US aid hits Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar hard
On the Thai-Myanmar border, sick patients are being sent home from hospital. In Laos, school meals have been interrupted. And in Cambodia, hundreds of staff...
Lao authorities temporarily close iron ore mine after spillage pollutes rivers
Lao authorities have temporarily shut down a Vietnamese-owned iron ore mining operation in the northeastern part of the country after a washing reservoir overflowed and...
Laos shutters Chinese-owned potash mine over sinkholes
Laos has ordered a Chinese-owned potash mine believed responsible for two massive sinkholes in Khammouane province to cease operations until further notice, and to fill...
