Laos

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Laos wants more control of its gold – by building the bullion market it never had

2026-07-17T06:00:00.000Z
"We were nobody", says founder and executive chairman of Impact Electrons Siam Peck Khamkanist.
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‘People laughed at us’: Naysayers blew them off – then this underdog built Asia’s first cross-border wind farm

2026-01-16T08:00:00.000Z
Laotian state utility Electricite Du Laos will pay Tenaga Nasional Berhad for the wheeling services, to transmit energy generated in Laos to Singapore.

Malaysia state utility signs deal to transmit energy from Laos to Singapore

2026-01-14T13:39:56.000Z
The ST Group is one of Laos’ emerging private-sector conglomerates.

Laos’ politically linked conglomerates dominate its small economy

2025-11-04T02:50:11.000Z
Henrik Andersen, managing director of Lao Brewery Company, says: “We are selling more than 100 litres of beverages to each Laotian a year. There is no other country, to my knowledge, that meets that.”

Lao Brewery keeps the taps – and optimism – flowing as Laos’ economy slows

2025-10-20T09:37:37.000Z
The autonomous Thanaleng Dry Port, in the Laotian capital of Vientiane and a kilometre away from the First Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge over the Mekong River, facilitates transitions between road, rail, sea and air transport.

No sea, no sweat: Dry ports turn landlocked Laos into land corridor, eye trade to Middle East, Europe

2025-09-10T14:44:53.000Z
Set up as a public-private partnership, Lao Bullion Bank currently operates out of a five-storey building in the capital, Vientiane.

Gold-rich Laos hits mother lode with S-E Asia’s first bullion bank amid inflation, currency blues

2025-06-29T04:00:00.000Z
The Funan Techo Canal in Cambodia, which broke ground in late 2024, is intended to provide access to the Gulf of Thailand from the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

Inside China’s quiet reboot in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar

2025-05-29T04:00:00.000Z
The manager and owner of Nana Backpacker Hostel were taken in for questioning by the Vang Vieng's Tourism Police office.

What to know about the methanol poisonings in Laos

2024-11-24T02:00:00.000Z
Prices in Laos has rocketed 23 per cent in 2022 and 31 per cent last year, while they are on course for 25 per cent this year, according to the Asian Development Bank

Debt-saddled Laos struggles to tame rampant inflation

2024-11-17T12:01:41.000Z