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In 1987, Italy decided that it would include the proceeds from criminal activity in its national accounts. Overnight, its economy…
According to a recent World Bank report, the number of registered Laotian migrants in Thailand increased by 15 percent between…
What is happening at Électricité du Laos (EDL), Laos’ badly indebted state-run energy utility? Up until early 2021, it owned…
Most mornings your columnist must scroll through feeds of the latest Southeast Asian news headlines. The feed on Laos is,…
AdvertisementFor the past three decades, the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) government appeared to prove the claim that Asia’s communist…
AdvertisementChina’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) turns 10 this year. Much ink has been spilled, digitally and otherwise, about the…
ASEAN Beat | Economy | Southeast Asia Rising tourism arrivals could offer some economic relief, though the government faces a number of complex structural…
AdvertisementInflation in Laos continues its alarming upward trend, reaching 40.3 percent year-on-year in January, the government announced this week, the…