Increase in Trafficking of Lao Women to China Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
Trafficking of women from Laos to China to serve as wives for Chinese men or to work in prostitution is increasing amid economic pressure following the Covid-19 pandemic.Trafficking is typically brokered by Lao middlemen who recruit young women or convince parents to marry off their ...
Phayboune Thanabouasy -
Open Development Laos publishes a new topic on Energy policy and administration
Open Development Laos (ODL) publishes a new topic page on Energy policy and administration, which describes the legal and administration framework for energy sector in Lao PDR. The page is available in Lao and English.Read the page here. ...
Japan grants 23.6 billion kip for human resource development in Laos
The Japanese government on Friday agreed to support human resource development in Laos with more than 23.6 billion kip (US$ 2.8 million).More ...
Viengdavanh Banphahaksa
Open Development Laos publishes new topic page on "COVID-19 and Education"
Open Development Laos (ODL) recently published a new topic page on “COVID-19 and Education” in English. Laos has reported relatively low numbers of COVID-19 cases. However, Laotians have still been significantly impacted by both national and international measures to prevent the transmission of coronavirus. Education is ...
Open Development Laos publishes a new topic on SDG 4 - Quality Education
Open Development Laos (ODL) publishes a new topic page on Sustainable Development Goal#4 -Quality Education, available in Lao and English. The topic explores the localization of SDG 4 into the national plan and implementation. Also progress and challenges faced in the implementation process are discussed. Read ...
Open Development Laos publishes new topic page on COVID-19 and Gender Equality
Open Development Laos (ODL) recently published a new topic page on “COVID-19 and Gender Equality” in English. Like other countries, Laos has been impacted by the economic downturn triggered by the pandemic. The preventative measures for COVID-19 have had knock-on effects on Laotians, but more intensified ...
Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam cite concerns over Pak Lay dam project in Laos
While Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam have accepted a prior agreement on the proposed 770 megawatt hydropower project in Laos’ Xayaboury Province, they have jointly released the statement calling on the Lao government to make every effort to address and mitigate potential adverse cross-border impacts of ...
Mega First unit secures RM634m loan for Laos hydro power project
Mega First Corporation Bhd has secured loan facilities totalling US$150mil or RM634.87mil to part finance the building of its Don Sahong hydropower project in Laos.It said on Tuesday its unit Mega First Investments (L) Ltd had entered into facility agreements with various financial institutions for club ...
Joseph Chin
Civil Society Organisations Support Lao Government Response to COVID-19 Prevention Across Country
The 12-month partnership agreements were signed as part of the ‘Civil Society Action to Prevent and Mitigate COVID-19’ (CiSAC) project, which will improve the nations’ long-term response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. These ten CSO projects, funded by the European Union, will reach over 100,000 ...
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Rotary Club of Ladner takes lead in running water project for Laos village
In remote villages of Laos, considered the most bombed country in history where one-third of the population was killed during a 20-year civil war, lack of access to clean water is both a health problem and a barrier to education for many children.The village of ...
Delta Optimist
In Laos, a World Bank 'model' dam and the myth of sustainable hydropower
It wasn’t a flood. It was a tsunami, Premrudee Daorung said of the wall of water that tore through the forests of Laos’ Attapeu province, snapping timber like matchsticks and flattening entire villages. Keep reading ...
Improving Tenure Security for Smallholder Farmers in Select Areas of Lao PDR [Video]
Global Land Tool Network Initiative introduced the `SALaR project` the Secure Access to Land and Resources funded by the Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development with a purpose to uplift rural smallholder farmers by improving land and natural resource conservation through collective land ...
Global Land Tool Network
Lao villagers worry that compensation for Pak Beng Dam will be too low
Local authorities in Laos last week met with villagers who will be affected by the Pak Beng Dam project to discuss compensation, but the villagers worry that the government’s offer will be too low, sources in the country. The dam, located in northwestern Laos’ Bokeo ...
RFA Lao
Lao Women Join International Peers At 2018 Global Summit Of Women In Sydney
(KPL) As part of its commitment to promoting women’s leadership in Laos, the Australian government has supported 10 high-achieving women from Laos to participate in the 2018 Global Summit of Women in Sydney, Australia, which brought together 1,000 women leaders from around the world between ...
KPL
Rights Group Demands Transparency in Case Against 10 Lao Villagers Jailed Over Land Dispute
A civil society organization (CSO) in Laos has called on the government to proceed with its case against ten villagers jailed for more than a year over a land dispute in a transparent manner and demanded an update on their health conditions in prison.In July ...
Ounkeo Souksavanh
