Infrastructure

The runway at Huayxai Airport in Bokeo province is currently being extended to better serve regional transport needs and accommodate the growth of investment and tourism. Now just 7 percent complete, the project is scheduled to be finished in 2020 at a cost of 149 billion ...

The Internet.  We all need it; the faster and cheaper the better.Mobile connections keep us moving, but the fastest speeds are still to be found via fiber optic cable.Now, a study looking at the cost of broadband by UK-based cable.co.uk asserts that the cost of getting connected in Laos ...

THE TAP-WATER business in Laos’ top tourist destination Luang Prabang has enormous potential for growth due to the rapid expansion of tourism, a high-speed rail project in the works and high demand for water utilities across the country, according to Exim Bank and Thai investors ...

(KPL) The Ministry of Energy and Mines continues to amend its development strategy so that it can ensure the reduction of electricity prices for the agricultural production sector.The plan will benefit the agricultural sector by cutting electricity prices by 50% for crop producers and 30% ...

A bridge that has been built across the Nam Ngum river linking Nabong and Thakokhay villages in Pakngum district, Vientiane, is now open for public use, making life easier for local residents. The official opening ceremony yesterday was attended by Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and President ...

VIENTIANE – China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (NORINCO) has launched an upgrading project for a Savanakhet road in central Laos.Dong Jifeng, assistant general manager of NORINCO International, the business sector of its parent company NORINCO, said at a ceremony on Saturday at the project ...

VIENTIANE – “Every project department of China Railway is ready to be dispatched at any time!”At the end of July, when a deadly flash flood swept through Attapeu province of southern Laos, China Railway, a Chinese company constructing the China-Laos Railway in the country, provided ...

Poor quality, excessive cost and the slow progress of road construction projects dominated discussions at the cabinet’s monthly meeting for November, which sought solutions to these chronic problems.More ...

(KPL) The community housing project “ARATA Garden Residences”, on the back side of LAO ITECC and next to That Luang Lake of Xaysettha district, will start its construction in early 2019 and is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2021.ARATA ...

The Lao-Chinese railway project has released polluted water from construction work into the Xong River in Vientiane province’s Vang Vieng district, one of the most popular destinations in the country for tourists, an local resident and an environmental official told RFA’s Lao Service.More ...