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EDL-Gen And GE Sign MOU To Develop Hydropower Digital Pilot Project

(KPL) On November 8, 2018 the American company GE signed a Memorandum of Understanding with EDL-Gen to host a Digital Industrial Workshop with energy officials and to further develop energy infrastructure in the Lao PDR.   More ...

KPL editors

“Space data offers instant clues to cause of deadly Laos dam disaster”: Stanford Professor

Space data gleaned from satellites has been used to create a hypothesis on the cause of the collapse of the saddle dam D at the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy project in Attepeu province.Bangkok-based professor Richard Meehan from Stanford University in the United States’ has been investigating the dam’s ...

Laotian Times editor

Chinese dams ramp up Lao external debt

BANGKOK — In its rush to become the “battery” of Southeast Asia, Laos is accepting more Chinese loans to build dams, ensuring the already debt-strapped country falls ever deeper into China’s pocket. More ...

MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR

Laos dam collapse: bombshell accusations, few answers (video)

Questions, accountability concerns, and controversies continue to swirl around the Laos dam disaster in July that killed more than 40 villagers, as evidenced by a range of new reports that stretch from South Korea to Thailand.More ...

AEC news editor

Investigator: Dam Project Killing Dolphins, Hurting Fishing and Tourism Industries

A member of Cambodia’s Supreme Council for Recommendations on Wednesday told RFA’s Khmer Service that local authorities are utilizing legal loopholes to avoid adhering to regulations that would protect the biodiversity of the Mekong River.Kong Monika led the Council’s team in investigating the impact of ...

Eugene Whong

In Laos, a World Bank 'model' dam and the myth of sustainable hydropower

BANGKOK — 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.More ...

Kelli Rogers

Homeless flood victims to have 500 modular houses

Dam construction companies have ordered 450 modular housing units, worth over 29 billion kip, from overseas to accommodate families who still have nowhere to live after they lost their homes in the flood that hit Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, in July.Homeless families will also have ...

Times Reporters

Govt presses for progress in dam collapse enquiry

The government cabinet has told an ad hoc committee to remain focused and to make progress in determining the root cause of the collapse of a dam in southern Laos in July which left dozens of people dead.More ...

Times Reporters

Did Korean builder’s corner-cutting lead to Lao dam disaster?

Explosive allegations made by a South Korean lawmaker and detailed in a leading South Korean newspaper point the finger at a leading Korean company as being responsible for hundreds of deaths and thousands of homeless in July’s Lao dam collapse.More ...

Andrew Salmon

Water Experts Question World Bank's Role in Laos Dam

BANGKOK — A panel of water experts have warned that the World Bank’s promotion of a major dam in Laos, which they say failed to deliver on basic promises, has fueled the country’s development of shoddy hydropower projects with catastrophic consequences.In July, an auxiliary dam at ...

David Boyle

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