Laotian Plan To Build Another Big Mekong Dam Concerns Thais – Analysis

Laos is preparing to build the seventh of nine planned large-scale Mekong River mainstream dams, the latest project in its controversial economic strategy to become the “battery of Southeast Asia,” sources in the country told Radio Free Asia.

The 728-megawatt Phou Ngoy Dam, whose projected completion date is 2029, would...