Barun Roy: Laos powers ahead (Business Standard India)

10 March 2010, 11:11 am

Later this month, after four years in the making, Laos’ biggest hydropower plant so far, Nam Theun 2, will start producing electricity and selling almost all of it to Thailand. With this will further expand the landlocked country’s reputation as the “battery” for South-East Asian nations and its novel way of earning money for its development.... Read More »

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