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...
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Mercy Relief (section 2018 Laos Dam Collapse Relief )
arrive". The Mainichi. 21 July 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2020. South China Morning Post (15 August 2018). "Laos dam collapse: survivors recount the horror"...
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2018. "Death toll reaches 36 in Laos dam collapse, 98 missing". Business Standard. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018. "Final Report – Investigation...
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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...
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July 23, 2018: Laos dam collapse. Part of a hydroelectric dam system under construction collapsed in Champasak Province, Laos. The collapse lead to widespread...
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List of deadliest floods (section 2018)
18 May 2018. Luino, Fabio; Tosatti, Giovanni; Bonaria, Vittorio (2014). "Dam Failures in the 20th Century: Nearly 1,000 Avoidable Victims in Italy Alone"...
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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...
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missions. Notable local large-scaled operations include the Nicoll Highway collapse, where DART was deployed for a 4-day rescue operation. DART operates on...
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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...
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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...
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Thongloun Sisoulith (category Members of the National Assembly of Laos)
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...
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Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (redirect from Typhoon Son-Tinh (2018))
floods Tropical Storm Kompasu (2021) "Laos struggles to find missing after dam collapse". Al Jazeera. July 29, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2020. "Vietnam flood...
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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'...
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Lao kip (redirect from Laotian Kip)
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...
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Bank of the Lao P.D.R. (redirect from Bank of Laos)
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...
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Houayheuang Xayabouly (category 21st-century Laotian women)
the Laotian government announced that citizens who spread untrue information on social media would be prosecuted. Following the 2018 collapse of a dam that...
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Revolutions of 1989 (redirect from Collapse of Communism)
revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts...
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Tham Luang cave rescue (redirect from 2018 Thailand cave flooding)
that they are from tribes in an area that extends across Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and China. This region has no clear borders and people are not assigned...
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List of ghost towns by country (section Laos)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Hydroelectricity (redirect from Hydroelectric dam)
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...
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2024 Southeast Asia heat wave (category 2024 in Laos)
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...
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Debt-trap diplomacy (section Laos)
dozen countries, including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Laos and Mongolia, were on the "brink of collapse" under the weight of overwhelming foreign debt, "much...
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China (category Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2018)
borders 14 nations and covers the bulk of East Asia, bordering Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar in Southeast Asia; India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan...
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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...
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Overseas Vietnamese (section Laos)
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...
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Paris Peace Accords (category Articles needing additional references from August 2018)
cease-fire. Both operate by unanimity. The withdrawal of foreign troops from Laos and Cambodia. A ban on the introduction of war material in South Vietnam...
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Cambodia (category Use British English from June 2018)
in Mainland Southeast Asia. Cambodia borders Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline along the Gulf of...
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largescale dam projects in the 20th and 21st centuries are major sources of environmental injustice for Native communities. Flooding caused by dams displace...
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