Laos
Chinese firms seek to set up large-scale durian plantations in Laos
Chinese companies have discovered Laos as a location to set up large-scale durian plantations to grow the...
Lao economy kept together by 94% microbusinesses: survey
Snapshot from a business fair for small and micro enterprises in Vientiane, Laos in 2020
The economy of...
Laos pushes ahead with plan to build provincial smart cities
Oudomxay in northern Laos is set to become a smart city and an IT-powered logistics hub
The government...
Laos gets its first-ever expressway – and it’s a smart one
Laos saw its first expressway, the Vientiane-Vang Vieng Expressway, officially being opened on December 20.
Starbucks arrives in Laos
With the coronavirus pandemic still sweeping across Southeast Asia, US coffee house chain Starbucks is thinking a...
Laos attracting more property buyers from Asia, agency says
Construction underway in Vientiane, Laos
Laos is starting to attract a greater number of property buyers mainly from...
Laos’ sovereign debt rating now close to junk
The Lao central bank is under pressure from mounting debt
US credit rating agency Fitch Ratings has become...
Hungary launches new investment programme in Laos
The foreign ministers of Laos, Saleumxay Kommasith (left), and Hungary, Peter Szijjarto, agreed on a new development investment programme
Chinese take over Laos’ national power grid
Laos is referred to as the "battery of Southeast Asia" due to its many hydropower plants exporting electricity
Laos at risk of sovereign debt default
The China-Laos railway project, originally meant to bring economic growth, is pushing Laos deeper into debt
The small...
After Cambodia, 7-Eleven enters Laos
Laos, so far untouched by the most ubiquitous convenience store brand in Southeast Asia, will get its...
Remittances to Laos to drop by 50% amid pandemic
Remittances of overseas Lao workers to their home country are projected to decline by about 50 per...
Myanmar, Laos high on money laundering watchlist
Myanmar and Laos have made it in the top five countries globally for the risk of money...
Thai firm to build Southeast Asia’s largest wind farm in Laos
Bangkok-based BCPG Plc, a renewable energy division of petroleum and energy conglomerate Bangchak Corporation Plc, said its...
Laos remains locked for foreign nationals amid pandemic
The Lao government decided to keep the country’s borders closed to foreign nationals and to impose testing...
Chinese loans for infrastructure cause debt ballooning in Myanmar, Laos
The China-Laos high-speed railway costs $6 billion
Chinese infrastructure projects for its Belt and Road Initiative financed by...
Nikon lays off staff in Thailand, Laos
Japanese imaging equipment maker Nikon Corporation after delivering a devastating annual report for its financial year ending...
Laos reopens after three weeks without virus cases
The government of Laos said it will allow restaurants and shopping centers to reopen starting May 4...
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Singapore scientists develop smartphone-controlled “robo plants”
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