The Lao government’s determination to plow ahead with construction of the controversial US$3.5-billion Xayaburi hydropower dam in northern Laos puts the mighty Mekong River’s spectacular biodiversity, ...

The letter refers to a meeting of the Mekong River Commission, which acknowledged the progress in the Pak Beng hydropower dam project to be built on the Mekong River in Oudomxai province of Laos ...

Construction work is marching ahead at the Xayaburi dam site in northern Laos and risks making a mockery of the decision last December by Mekong countries to delay building the dam on the Mekong ...

ALBAWABA - In Laos, near the historic town of Luang Prabang, a large dam is being constructed on the Mekong river. Critics are concerned that this $3 billion hydroelectric project will change the ...

VIENTIANE: Former Electricite du Laos (EDL) officials and four contractor ... signed by the developer stated that construction of the dam would start in 2013 and finish in 2016, but the project ...