Improved water management is central to solving the water-energy-food trilemma in Lao PDR
The Nexus between Energy Consumption, Biodiversity, and Economic Growth in Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC): Evidence from Cointegration and Granger Causality Tests
Laos Commits to Decarbonization, Energy Transition
Oudet Souvannavong and Bounleuth Luangpaseuth, respectively the president and vice president of the Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LNCCI), engaged in a dialogue with Tetsuya Watanabe, president of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). The three met on 22 March as part of an ongoing effort to drive renewable […]
Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area aims to boost connectivity
Cambodian Senate President, Mr Hun Sen clarified that the establishment of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA) aims to connect the economy and infrastructure among these border areas.
Energy poverty in the Lao PDR and its impacts on education and health
New hydropower dam in Laos could lead to ‘economic losses’
Conservationists and people of the Mekong Basin are petitioning the government not to sign a contract to buy electricity from the Pak Beng Hydropower Dam in Laos, fearing economic and territorial losses.
Singapore and Lao PDR ink MOU on carbon credits
Singapore and Lao PDR signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on carbon credits aligned with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
Laos agrees to build dam in remote, mountainous area near Vietnam border
Government officials have signed an agreement with a joint venture company to build a US$184 million dam in northern Laos that will send most of its generated electricity to neighboring Vietnam, a Ministry of Energy and Mines official told Radio Free Asia.
