The 2018 Laos dam collapse was the collapse of Saddle Dam D, part of a larger hydroelectric dam system under construction in southeast Laos's Champasak...

arrive". The Mainichi. 21 July 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2020. South China Morning Post (15 August 2018). "Laos dam collapse: survivors recount the horror"...

Dams and reservoirs in Laos are the cornerstone of the Lao government's goal of becoming the "battery of Asia". Hydroelectric power is a significant resource...

2018. "Death toll reaches 36 in Laos dam collapse, 98 missing". Business Standard. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018. "Final Report – Investigation...

July 23, 2018: Laos dam collapse. Part of a hydroelectric dam system under construction collapsed in Champasak Province, Laos. The collapse lead to widespread...

18 May 2018. Luino, Fabio; Tosatti, Giovanni; Bonaria, Vittorio (2014). "Dam Failures in the 20th Century: Nearly 1,000 Avoidable Victims in Italy Alone"...

missions. Notable local large-scaled operations include the Nicoll Highway collapse, where DART was deployed for a 4-day rescue operation. DART operates on...

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia...

villages Xe-Pian dam Xe-Namnoy dam Saddle dams No.1-3    23 July – The collapse of Saddle Dam D, part of a larger hydroelectric dam system under construction...

hydropower dam projects despite the opposition of water and development experts. After the collapse of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy saddle dam in Southern Laos and...

seven hydroelectric dams along the Nam Ou river which are located in the provinces of Phongsaly and Luang Prabang in northern Laos. The project is managed...

province collapsed, killing 71 people whilst displacing 14,440 - making it one of Laos' worst dam disaster in history. The dam was being worked on by Laos, Thailand...

floods Tropical Storm Kompasu (2021) "Laos struggles to find missing after dam collapse". Al Jazeera. July 29, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2020. "Vietnam flood...

December 2010. "Singapore Red Cross pledges S$50,000 in aid after Laos dam collapse". Channel NewsAsia. "US$100,000 to go towards Singapore Red Cross'...

toll of the Soviet collapse in 1991 and the persistence of chronic inflation, coins are rarely seen in circulation. In 1953, the Laos branch of the Institut...

toll of the Soviet collapse in 1991 and the persistence of chronic inflation, there are no coins currently in circulation in Laos. In 1979, banknotes...

the Laotian government announced that citizens who spread untrue information on social media would be prosecuted. Following the 2018 collapse of a dam that...

revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts...

000 people died. The Malpasset Dam failure in Fréjus on the French Riviera (Côte d'Azur), southern France, collapsed on December 2, 1959, killing 423...

settlers, and the loss of Indigenous lands to settlers and the subsequent collapse of several nations' self-sufficiency. Although not without conflict, European...

kindness of Laos sending a rescue team to help the children trapped in the cave in Tham Luang, Chiang Rai]. Thairath Online (in Thai). 27 June 2018. Archived...

Theravada Buddhism is the largest religion in Laos, which is practiced by 66% of the population. Lao Buddhism is a unique version of Theravada Buddhism...

Retrieved 19 February 2024. Cai, Yiwen (13 September 2023). "On the China-Laos Border, a Cautionary Tale of Hot Money and Wild Dreams". #SixthTone. Retrieved...

October 2, 2020. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Al Jazeera (July 29, 2018). "Laos struggles to find missing after dam collapse Al Jazeera". www.aljazeera.com. Al...

recorded in Palu, Central Sulawesi at 37.8 °C (100.0 °F). On 16 April 2024, Laos saw an all-time high temperature when 42.7 °C (108.9 °F) was recorded in...

borders 14 nations and covers the bulk of East Asia, bordering Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar in Southeast Asia; India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan...

Southeast Asia, Vietnam shares land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through...

dozen countries, including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Laos and Mongolia, were on the "brink of collapse" under the weight of overwhelming foreign debt, "much...

mission over Laos was shot down by a SAM near the Mụ Giạ Pass. ARVN units killed 127 PAVN for the loss of 22 ARVN in fighting near Dam Be, Cambodia in...

This population usually resides in neighboring countries, such as Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and China, as well as those who settled in Korea and Japan before...