Category: Laos

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 […]

Thailand and Laos Prime Ministers agree more connecting bridges over the Mekong river are needed Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Lao counterpart Phankham Viphavanh agree there should be more bridges linking their countries across the Mekong River, the government spokesman said. They also agreed on the need to link the Thai rail network with […]

Thai and Lao Prime Ministers to lay foundation stone for new Mekong river bridge New bridge connecting Bueng Kan’s Muang district with Laos’s Bolikhamsai province The foundation stone for the fifth Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge will be laid by the prime ministers of both countries on October 28. Government spokesperson Anucha Burapachaisri said on Tuesday that […]