Category: Laos

BCPG plans to allocate 39 billion baht to fund domestic and overseas businesses and asset acquisitions BCPG is preparing to start the first-phase development of the 600MW Monsoon Wind Power project in southern Laos BCPG’s wind power facilities in Nakhon Si Thammarat. The company is pushing ahead with a plan to co-develop the 600MW Monsoon […]

Thai, Chinese backers sign power purchase agreement for Mekong River dam in Laos Agreement between China’s Sinohydro Corp., Thailand’s Gulf Energy Development Public Co., Ltd., and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) The dam in northern Laos would be the third built on the river in the country. Thai and Chinese investors have signed […]

The Last Days of Laos’ Beautiful Luang Prabang, concerns on construction on the Luang Prabang dam site UNESCO experts insist that a huge dam would destroy the “authenticity and integrity” of the World Heritage Site in Laos. By Tom Fawthrop The ancient citadel of Luang Prabang, hidden away in the mountains of northern Laos, has […]

Excavation of Thailand’s longest railway tunnel has begun on Den Chai – Chiang Rai – Chiang Khong railway line Richard Barrow’s Thai Train Guide Excavation of what will be Thailand’s longest tunnel has officially begun in northern Thailand. The 6.2 kilometre long tunnel is part of the Den Chai to Chiang Khong railway that is […]

Southeast Asia’s largest wind power plant to be built in southern Laos’ Sekong and Attapeu provinces The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Monsoon Wind Power Company Limited has signed a 692.55-million-U.S. dollar loan agreement to build a wind power plant in Laos. Comprising 133 wind turbines with a capacity of 600 MW, the Monsoon Wind […]

Luang Prabang Mekong hydropower plant in Laos to be completed in 2030 A hydropower plant under construction on the Mekong River in northern Laos’ Luang Prabang province is expected to be completed and able to generate electricity in 2030. Construction of the 1,460 MW hydropower project began at the start of 2020. The concrete dam […]

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 […]