http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/tiki-blogs_rss.php?ver=2 Sun, 20 May 2012 15:13:11 +0100 Tiki CMS/Groupware via FeedCreator 1.7.2.1 http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/img/laowiki1_116_48.jpg http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php en-us http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=46 Fourth Friendship Bridge project is due to start in March 2010 according to the Lao state media.

The bridge be located near Chiang Khong in Thailand's Chiang Rai province and Ban Huay Xai in Lao - see our Huay Xai locator map

Full story: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1524933.php/Construction-of-fourth-Lao-Thai-bridge-to-start-in-March

From Vientiane Times via Monsters & Critics


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]]> Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:27:43 +0100 http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=44 "Krahn's concerns were borne out last year when donor agencies including the World Food Programme, filled a major wetland in southern Laos in order to increase rice production. What they failed to question was the role the wetlands had in local diets.

"They saw a swamp; the women saw snails, fish, water weeds, frogs, eels, and edible roots to be eaten and bartered for rice. Filling the wetland resulted in protein and micronutrient malnutrition for the rice farmers, whose supply of other foods had gone, and hunger and dependency for the people who neither had goods to barter nor food to eat. "

From an article about diet (focusing on post-partum food taboos) on IPS News
]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:31:15 +0100 http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=43 AH3.

While growing Chinese influence undoubtedly benefits some, as evidenced by the row of luxury SUVs sitting at the China-Laos border, many Laotians, expats and international observers are deeply concerned...

From Asia Times
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From Mongabay.com
]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:20:16 +0100 http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=41
Sinohydro and EDL will also lay a new power transmission line from Xiengkhouang to Luang Prabang.

From KHL International Construction news

International Water Power Magazine reports that the cost of the dam projects will be US$559m, and of the power line US$129m.
]]> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:29:16 +0100 http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=40 FIS
]]> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:13:34 +0100 http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=39 "About one fifth of the money will come directly from the government budget, according to the Vientiane Times" The rest will be taken from external sources including donors and loans from international financial institutions.

From People's Daily
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From Vietnam News Agency
]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:42:10 +0100 http://www.laowiki.com/tikiwiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=36 http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85002
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From Biofuels International
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A noteworthy phrase in the agency report is "the United States has been moving closer to both nations, where China is also stepping up influence".

From AFP.

There's also an editorial on this in the Bangkok Post, pointing out that this may not be good news for Thai companies investing in Laos and Cambodia.
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Reasonably well researched (but for some inaccuracies about transport*) travel piece about Xieng Khouang and the Plain of Jars, albeit with a strangely inapposite introduction about NGOs.

The article gives the impression it was written two decades ago, but it's worth a read and includes a telling aerial photograph of bomb craters.

From JapanFocus

• "Unless you have an ox cart, about the only way to get to Xieng Khouang Province, where the plain is located, is to fly". Balderdash.

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"Laos had around 1.545m mobile customers at the end of 2008. This is equivalent to 25.2% of the population and reflects growth of around 39% for the year."

From Companies and Markets via PR Inside press release aggregator.
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