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Laos Suspends New Dam Projects Following Catastrophe

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The Laos government will suspend approval of new dams while it reviews more than 50 current projects following the catastrophic collapse of a hydropower facility late last month. Kanya Khammoungkhoun, Deputy Director General of the Laotian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told VOA a wide scale review of the country’s dam projects would be launched in the wake of the disaster, which killed scores of people and displaced more than 10,000 others in two countries. “Over 50 dams in the...

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