SIEM PANG, Cambodia — Kang Ngan isn’t sure what a dam is. She doesn’t know how old she is, although she thinks “over 30” is a good guess. But she has lived long enough to know that something is terribly wrong along the Sekong River. The rhythms of life here …
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PAKSONG DISTRICT, Laos — Bounna Eemchanthavong was trying to do math that refused to add up: About 650 people lived in his remote village in southern Laos before it was devastated by a dam failure, and only 65 of them had been spotted at two shelters where survivors gathered. But …
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Rescuers searched floodwaters on Wednesday for dozens of people feared dead and hundreds missing after a dam collapsed in a remote part of land-locked Laos, one of Asia’s poorest countries, a government official said. Villagers are evacuated after the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam collapsed in Attapeu …
Hundreds of people are missing and an unknown number believed dead after the collapse of a hydropower dam under construction in southeast Laos, state media reported Tuesday. Several dams are being built or are planned in Laos, an impoverished and landlocked communist country that exports most of its hydropower energy …
First, two friends rented a buffalo. AT DAWN, A FLEET OF orange-robed monks float through the streets of Luang Prabang, Laos, during tak bat, the Buddhist morning alms ritual. Thirty minutes outside town, the staff at Laos Buffalo Dairy gear up for another day, but to a decidedly different rhythm. For them, …
An animal protection group says Laos urgently needs to take steps to tackle this growing problem. The fastest growing ivory market in the world is now Laos, according to an investigation by Kenya-based group Save the Elephants. China is banning all ivory trade by the end of 2017, but business …
The start of a project highlights Vientiane’s continuing struggle with the issue even as it receives foreign assistance. Last week, Laos and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) inked a new support project document focusing on clearing unexploded ordnance (UXO). Though the process itself was fairly routine, it nonetheless illustrated …
We investigate China’s rising influence in Laos and the potentially disastrous consequences for the local population. Mandarin is the language of choice among its residents and on its street signs and advertising hoardings; clocks are set to Beijing time in homes, stores and even municipal buildings; and the Yuan is …
Dozens of elephants, adorned in bright colors and with garlands of flowers, paraded through a Laotian town on Saturday in a celebration of a species that has become increasingly scarce in the Southeast Asian country. Known historically as the “Land of a Million Elephants”, Laos now has only a few …
“A Great Place to Have a War” by Joshua Kurlantzick revisits America’s intervention in Laos in the 1960s. A GREAT PLACE TO HAVE A WAR America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA By Joshua Kurlantzick 323 pp. Simon & Schuster. $28. Speaking last September in Vientiane, the …
Laos has notified its Southeast Asian neighbors that it’s moving ahead with a third contentious hydro dam on the Mekong River’s mainstream. The Mekong River Commission, an organization that groups together Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand for joint management of the river, said in a statement it has received notice …