HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s electricity firm EVN has signed five new deals to buy electricity from Laos starting from next year, the state-run company said. The southeast Asian nation faces severe ...

Laos, deeply indebted to China for large-scale infrastructure projects, is at high risk of defaulting on its obligations, according to experts, a situation exacerbated by the economic stress felt ...

Laos is preparing to disconnect cryptocurrency miners from its national grid by the first quarter of 2026, as per a Reuters report. The government says the move will help redirect valuable electricity ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Police in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos have made one of Asia’s biggest-ever drug busts, seizing more than 55.6 million methamphetamine pills in a single raid. The drugs were ...

BEIJING (AP) — Laos, a nation of 7 million people wedged between China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links China’s poor southwest to foreign markets but ...

China’s intense railway expansion has marked a new milestone with the official opening of a new track that pushes beyond its own frontiers into its southern neighbor Laos. The track, China’s first ...

As the train sped through the Lao forest at 160 kilometers per hour, I had a flashback to last February, when I traveled from Vientiane to the Chinese border to document the developments at the Boten ...

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In this Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, photo, Lao people walk past their country flag, in the capital Vientiane, Laos. Credit: AP Photo/Manish Swarup After gambling with “high risk” levels of debt distress ...

Laos is considering halting electricity supply to cryptocurrency miners by the first quarter of 2026, as it seeks to redirect ...

The government reportedly plans on employing the new revenue stream's profits on "priority" programs. Laos is reportedly expected to earn approximately $190 million in 2022 from bitcoin mining ...

China’s intense railway expansion has marked a new milestone with the official opening of a new track that pushes beyond its own frontiers into its southern neighbor Laos. The track, China’s first ...