The Laos-China Railway aims to cut costs, boost connectivity, and open new opportunities for ASEAN trade and integration.

In 2018, China alone accounted for nearly 80% of total FDI. The LCR essentially put Laos on the map for Chinese businesses, who have long associated new high-speed rail links with surges in economic ...

At the invitation of Chinese Ambassador to Laos Fang Hong, nearly 20 representatives from 10 UN agencies in Laos, including ...

Yet, over a year after the Laos-China Railway finished construction ... a large LED screen mounted to one wall displays a map showing Haichang’s lavish development plan for the city. A salesperson in ...

The $6 billion China-Laos railway, which opened in December 2021 and will soon provide a direct route from Kunming, China, to the Gulf of Thailand through connections with previously existing rail ...

At the heart of this plan is the Laos-China high-speed railway, which cost $6 billion and opened in December 2021 to much fanfare. So far, though, early indications suggest that the project is ...

Chinese developers are constructing high-rise residential towers across the special economic zone that are geared to Chinese investors, unaffordable to the vast majority of Lao. Warning ...

Laos, relatively undeveloped and small at just 7.4 million people, matters to Beijing because it shares borders not only with China, but also with the larger Southeast Asian economies of Cambodia ...

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 ...

KUNMING, China -- Passenger traffic on the high-speed rail line connecting China with Laos jumped during China's weeklong holiday in early October as tourists took advantage of the cross-border ...