Villagers working on the Chinese plantations become weak and tired after only two or three years working, and often suffer from chronic headaches and dizziness believed to be from the use of chemicals.
Category: Laos
Survivors of 2018 Dam Collapse in Laos Begin Receiving Compensation
“We in this village haven’t received rice seedlings yet. So far only two villages have. Besides the seedlings, we also need shovels and other tools for rice cultivation.”
Little Laos teeters towards big debt crisis
Laos’ finances are ‘inadequate’ to meet its foreign debt payments, and with Chinese loans and investment in all sectors of the economy, any future development will be more or less directed by Chinese interests.
Lao Citizens Charged High Rates For Power Amid Virus Shutdown
“Laos has been called the ‘battery of ASEAN, and we have so many dams,’ but electricity is more expensive here than it is in the countries that we sell power to.”
Five Miners Killed in Blast at Chinese Coal Mine in Laos
Five miners were killed and another left seriously injured in an explosion May 10 at a Chinese coal mine in the Ta Oy district of Saravane province in southern Laos.
Lao Villagers Sickened by Chemical Run-off From Chinese Banana Farms
Chemical waste from Chinese-owned banana farms is polluting a river in Bokeo province in northern Laos, leaving local villagers who bathe in the stream with severe rashes and other skin disorders.
Nearly $37 billion invested in Laos
The Lao government has approved more than 6,000 investment projects with combined funding of nearly $37 billion since the introduction of the market-oriented economy in the 1980s.
China’s Belt and Road keeps steaming ahead in Laos
Covid-19 pandemic has not slowed Beijing’s increasingly crucial plan to build a railway connecting China to mainland SE Asia