The sleepy town of Pak Beng, best known as a stopover for slow boats connecting the Laos-Thailand border to the ancient Lao capital of Luang Prabang, will be transformed later this year by the launch of a third major hydro-dam on the lower Mekong River. Only 180 kilometers away, Thai communities and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) […]
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World