• Thai company eyes cassava, oil palm investment in Laos
    • Vientiane Times
    • 02 September 2011

    The RTL World Trade Company wants to grow about 50,000 hectares of cassava and oil palms in Vientiane province.

  • Laos swamped by foreign investment
    • AFP
    • 18 May 2011

    A new Chinese-controlled town inside Laos where Laotians are not welcome.

  • Laos losing out to land concessions
    • Vientiane Times
    • 27 April 2011

    More than 50 percent of land concessions granted for investment projects result in detrimental affects to Laos, according to an expert from the National Land Management Authority

  • Laos: Land concessions come under scrutiny
    • Vientiane Times
    • 22 April 2011

    The granting of land leases and concessions for some investment projects is unacceptable, as some projects negatively impact on the environment and livelihoods of local people.

  • Laos and the Resource Curse
    • Asian Sentinel
    • 21 October 2010

    China and other nations are making Laos an industrial farm, to the detriment of its ecology

  • Laos gives green light to foreign rice farmers
    • Vientiane Times
    • 22 June 2010

    The government will allow foreign companies and individuals to invest in rice cultivation in Laos, Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh announced on Friday

  • Kuwait backs rice cultivation study in Laos
    • Vientiane Times
    • 07 June 2010

    Kuwait has provided US$350,000 to the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to study the suitability of extending irrigation so rice can be grown for export to Kuwait.

  • PE firm rethinks Laos/Cambodia fund
    • Financial Times
    • 18 April 2010

    FIDP has launched a Cambodia and Laos fund, “an extended China play” that will focus largely on agriculture, seeking to benefit from China’s desire for food security.

  • Laos, Mongolia agree to agriculture cooperation
    • Vientiane Times
    • 22 Mar 2010

    The Lao side will consider a request by Mongolia to seek agricultural land of up to 10,000 hectares to produce rice and other crops. Also under consideration is a proposal by Mongolia to develop sheep farming in Laos.

  • Catching Cambodia on the cusp of development
    • Financial Times
    • 14 February 2010

    Leopard Capital's second Cambodian fund is expected to continue investment in agriculture, as well as potentially including investment in Laos.

  • GTZ/BMZ: Foreign direct investment in land in developing countries
    • GTZ
    • 12 February 2010

    On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the GTZ have published a new study on FDI in land in developing countries.

  • Khon Kaen Sugar set to double sugarcane output
    • Bangkok Post
    • 27 January 2010

    Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Plc aims to invest about 15 billion baht over the next five years to double its sugarcane output in Thailand and continuously expand its presence in Cambodia and Laos.

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