By Carolyn CowanGerry Flynn BANGKOK — 2025 saw global conservation plunged into chaos, with an estimated $500 million in ...

Although rare earth mining is illegal in Laos, rare earth mines have still emerged in recent years, threatening the Mekong River system. Weak oversight and limited civic space have enabled the opening ...

Montree Pichayathana, MMD Group, Thailand, studies how MMD Thailand is driving long-term success in Lao People's Democratic ...

Chifeng Gold celebrates production of 1 million ounces of gold at Sepon Mine.

MINSK, 17 July (BelTA) - Bilateral cooperation in various sectors was discussed during a meeting between Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov and Laos President Thongloun Sisoulith, ...

Southeast Asian country Laos is turning to cryptocurrency mining as a way to ease its growing debt burden and put surplus energy to use, according to a report published Wednesday. Laos’ aspiration to ...

According to the Washington-based Stimson Center, the past decade has seem a spike in unregulated mining activity in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia.

Sand is being extracted from the bottom of the Nam Khan River, a tributary of the Mekong near Luang Prabang, Laos. The area has many new resorts and an elephant sanctuary, development that demands ...