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Expert briefing
Publication date: 21 March 2016

Construction needs as South-east Asia integrates and develops economically.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 September 2022

Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding on developing such a line with Japan in 2006, but the National Assembly shelved the scheme in 2010. The new project could cost up to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 November 2020

It is relying on China -- a fellow one party, Marxist-Leninist state -- to help ease its woes. Meanwhile, the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is preparing for its…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 July 2023

According to a debt sustainability analysis published by the IMF in May, Laos is in debt distress. Years of rapid growth in borrowing to fund infrastructure development…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 April 2021

Phankham Viphavanh succeeds him as prime minister. The country’s reshuffled leadership is entrusted with handling complicated ties with China and Vietnam -- each of which looks to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 21 April 2017

Port and shipping infrastructure in South-east Asia.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 3 November 2021

The new link has the potential to boost landlocked Laos’s economy markedly, especially as there are plans for it ultimately to form part of a ‘pan-Asian’ railway. However, there…

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