Category: Laos

Thailand agrees to buy electricity from Laos, ignoring NGOs’ concerns Environmental groups say they fear harm to the Mekong’s ecosystem and to the livelihoods of local people. Thailand agrees to buy electricity from Laos, ignoring NGOs’ concerns Thai power authorities have agreed after a long delay to buy electricity from three hydropower projects in Laos, […]

BCPG Plc power generation company’s net profit soars in Q3 Weather factors push up production, sales BCPG Plc, the power generation arm of mostly state-owned energy conglomerate Bangchak Corporation Plc, saw its net profit soar by 40.7% from the second quarter of this year to 709 million baht in the third quarter, due mainly to […]

Expectations high for new Laos railway Luang Namtha Province is politically stable, socially safe, secure, and orderly, and its economy continues to grow steadily. The province is located in the northwest of Laos and has a 160-kilometer border with China, and a 159-kilometer border with Myanmar to the west. The province is home to people […]

Boten station, the 5th station completed on China-Laos railway Signs were officially put up on Friday to identify the Boten railway station of the China-Laos railway on Friday. It is the fifth station to be completed on the line in northern Laos. The project, which includes the four other stations plus four side stations, covers […]

Thailand and Laos agree to promote infrastructure development, including two new bridges over the Mekong River construction of the fifth bridge connecting Bueng Kan of Thailand and Bolikhamxay province of Laos, and the sixth one connecting Ubon Ratchathani of Thailand and Salavan province of Laos. Thailand and Laos have agreed to promote the development of […]

China-Laos railway eyes December 2021 opening The China-Laos railway, a railroad stretching over 1,000 kilometers from Southwest China’s Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, to Vientiane in Laos, is expected to begin services by the end of this year, according to China State Railway Group Co Ltd, the country’s railroad operator. Construction of the track was […]

Chinese property developer provokes ire in Theravada-style Buddhist Laos with 100-meter Mahayana-style Buddha statue Locals who follow another sect protest structure set to become capital’s tallest Flexing its economic might in impoverished Laos, China has hit a snag on the religious front, provoking anti-Chinese anger over a gigantic statue of Buddha that a Shanghai company […]

Opening of 1,000km Laos-China railway approaches in in December 2021 Final ‘dynamic tests’ of the Lane Xang Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) train are being done on the Laos-China railway ahead of its opening in December. Once functional, it will be China’s first international railway, connecting Laotian capital Vientiane to Kunming, the capital of China’s Yunnan […]

China-Laos Railway kicks off dynamic testing The first dynamic testing train departed from the Vientiane Station of China-Laos Railway on Wednesday morning and headed north to the Laos-China border town of Boten to kick off the dynamic testing along the China-Laos Railway. Dynamic testing is an important step before the railway is put into operation. […]

Laos’ first passenger train unveiled in Vientiane ahead of railway debut The first passenger train to be put into service when the Laos-China railway comes into operation in December arrived at Vientiane station in Xaythany district on October 16. The electrical multiple unit train, which has been named Lane Xang (after a Lao kingdom that […]