Laos is forging ahead with construction of a controversial $3.5 billion hydropower dam in breach of an agreement to suspend the project pending approval by ministers of neighboring countries, an ...

The cost-cutting and lack of oversight that led to the dam's collapse plague other hydropower projects across the country. Europe’s Pöyry Energy and its controversial role as Xayaburi dam ...

Construction work is marching ahead at the Xayaburi dam site in northern Laos and risks making a mockery of the decision last December by Mekong countries to delay building the dam on the Mekong ...

The December 2011 ministerial-level meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) agreed to delay a decision on building the Xayaburi dam pending further studies on the impacts of the controversial ...

Five years after the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos began operations, the cost of Mekong hydropower is becoming ever more clear. The Mekong Delta of Vietnam stands to be most in danger in the time ...