Laos has kept the true scale of the disaster under wraps because it would jeopardize dozens of other dams envisaged under its plan to be the “Battery of Southeast Asia.”
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Chinese dams ramp up Lao external debt
Analysts predict increasing difficulty with mounting loans from China
Bureaucratic Chaos Rife in Hours Before Laos Dam Burst
Government ill-equipped to handle the emergency, with notices going up and down the chain of command, redundant communications and general confusion about when to start evacuations.
Incentives needed to attract investment in special economic zones
A recent survey suggests that Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand have also established SEZs and are offering greater incentives than Laos.
Laos: China is Building, West is Destroying and Spreading Nihilism
(Opinion) It is one of those complex stories that are so difficult to tell, and yet they should, they have to be shared.
“I feel helpless and useless” – struggles since Lao dam collapse
Three months since the dam failure cut a path of destruction through 13 villages, many communities are finally able to move into government-built temporary housing.
Lao Governor Walks Back Projected Costs For Housing in Flood-Hit Attapeu
The governor of a province in Laos hit by flooding from a dam breach earlier this year has issued conflicting estimates of the projected cost to house displaced persons, giving figures deemed unnecessarily high by another official source and contradicting statements he himself had made earlier in an interview.
Hydroelectric Power in Laos: Economic Security in Energy-Hungry South-East Asia
Studies have found that every country in the Greater Mekong region theoretically has access to energy sources that are 100 per cent renewable.