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A China-built rail line in Laos aims to jumpstart the country’s exports and provide China a key link to overseas markets.
WSJ explores the ambition behind the $6 billion project—part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative—and the economic implications for the region. Photo: Jiang Wenyao/Zuma Press
The coordinated sanctions have been imposed on those responsible for major criminal operations in Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada have imposed coordinated sanctions against 14 individuals and entities for their involvement in Southeast Asia’s monstrous online scamming industry. According to a statement from the U.K. government on Friday, the […]
Thai developer Amata is setting up a significant industrial park in Laos, aiming to draw manufacturers moving from China due to the persisting U.S.-China tensions and uncertainties in the Chinese economy. Thai developer Amata is establishing a major industrial park in Laos to attract manufacturers relocating from China amid ongoing U.S.-China tensions and uncertainties in […]
Bangladesh’s top court has scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that had sparked violent clashes across the country that have killed more than 100 people. A third of public sector jobs had been reserved for the relatives of veterans from the country’s war for independence from Pakistan in 1971. But now the court […]