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DEVELOPMENT-LAOS: ASIAN SLOWDOWN DAMS HYDROPOWER AMBITIONS
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Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-20-1998
BANGKOK, Aug. 20 (IPS) -- Champagne toasts and chanting by
Buddhist monks accompanied the opening in April of the Nam Theun
Hinboun dam, the first major hydroelectric project in Laos in 20
years.
The Lao government is counting on the 210-megawatt project,
located on the Theun River in central Laos, to earn it foreign
exchange mostly by selling electricity to neighboring Thailand.
But the collapse of the Thai economy has cast severe doubts on
the viability of this plan and other big hydropower projects.
This leaves Laos, one of Asia's poorest ...
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