Story Archive
2021-11-05
Indonesia, a signatory, and Laos, which did not sign up, say it is unfair to developing economies.
2021-11-02
The company says it is improving its operations, promising cleaner water to affected areas.
2021-10-28
The haul was Bokeo province’s third large drug seizure in a one-week period.
2021-10-27
Hundreds of laborers walk off a Chinese-run plantation in central Laos.
2021-10-19
“We’re not sure whether they’ll pay us or not,” says one resident displaced by the US $6 billion project.
2021-10-15
Laborers say that their bosses do not provide health care or pay them their salaries when they become ill and leave their jobs.
2021-10-12
The company uses harmful chemicals and returns the land in terrible condition ahead of rice planting season, villagers say.
2021-10-06
Arrested without health checks, many of those sent to the district jail in Vientiane were confined in a single room with other criminals, some of them already infected,
2021-10-05
Villagers have waited for two years for compensation, with the rail line set to open in December.
2021-10-01
Beijing’s lending to low- and middle-income countries is provided on less generous terms than loans from other lenders and multinational creditors.
2021-09-30
The two men, both 21, began work at a Chinese-owned farm in southern Laos in July, and left after receiving no pay in September.
2021-09-29
Another project, the Sanakham Dam, is scheduled to move ahead despite local villagers’ complaints.
2021-09-23
Twenty at one work site are paid after they cut off power to the project, but more than a hundred are still waiting for their pay.
2021-09-20
Christians in rural areas of Laos remain subject to discrimination at the hands of local authorities despite protection under national law.
2021-09-16
Residents say they are subsisting on dry goods to get through lockdowns set to run until the end of September.