Category: Laos

China-Laos-Thailand rail link plans up for talks Thailand and Laos are in talks about the potential of a China-Laos-Thailand railway link which could reduce cargo transport costs by 30%-50% in three to five years, said the Department of Rail Transport (DRT) on Saturday. Athipu Chitranukroh, deputy director-general of the DRT and Kitjaluck Srinuchsart, deputy director-general […]

5th Thai-Lao bridge opens next year connecting Thailand’s Bueng Kan with Laos’ Bolikhamxai The fifth Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge is set to open early next year which should help boost Bueng Kan’s economic prospects, says the government. The mid-section of the bridge, the last jigsaw piece of the construction, is expected to be completed in the […]

Preliminary construction underway on Luang Prabang Dam, minus key steps yet to be completed Construction work – including the paving of access roads and clearing of a building site – has begun on the Luang Prabang hydropower dam on the Mekong River in Laos, despite an acknowledgment by Lao officials that several key steps in […]

Thai-Chinese high-speed railway project seeking Bht300bn extra New budget needs Thai cabinet approval The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) plans to invest another 300 billion baht for the second phase of the Thai-Chinese high-speed railway project. An SRT source said the blueprint of the 356-kilometre section of the second phase of the project, stretching from […]

BCPG assembles Asia’s largest wind farm in Laos in cooperation with PowerChina International BCPG Plc, the renewable power generation arm of Bangchak Corporation Plc, is planning to build Asia’s largest wind farm in Laos in cooperation with PowerChina International. Niwat Adirek, president of BCPG and an executive committee member of Impact Energy Asia Development (IEAD), […]

All systems go for construction of US$547 million logistics park project in Vientiane, Laos Construction of the logistics park, a central component of the Thanaleng Dry Port and Vientiane Logistics Park Project, has begun following an official groundbreaking ceremony on Friday (Nov 25). Speaking at the ceremony, the Chairman of Vientiane Logistics Park Co., Ltd., […]

South Korean company confers on construction of the US$2.9-billion Resort Lao Complex project in Vientiane province The General Logistics Department of the Ministry of Public Security recently signed documents to grant the right for the use of state land in the Km62 area of Vientiane province for the construction of the US$2.9-billion Resort Lao Complex […]

Thailand’s High-speed rail project between Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima is ‘behind schedule’ The contract governing the Thai-Chinese high-speed railway construction may need to be renegotiated, as construction of the project’s first phase between Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima is now falling behind schedule, a source at the Transport Ministry said. The first phase, which is divided […]

4 years on, some survivors of Laos dam collapse at Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydropower plant still waiting for promised new homes Authorities have been slow to deliver on pledges of compensation and houses after 2018 disaster. New permanent homes for survivors of flooding from a 2018 saddle dam collapse at the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydropower […]