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Japan steps in to help Laos cut carbon emission
2014-03-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: Experts discussed the prospective cooperation with Lao private sector companies in Vientiane yesterday, aiming to share experiences on the transfer of low carbon technologies. The discussion was held under the cooperation framework on National Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) and Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), an agreement which the Lao and Japanese reached last year, aiming to build the another cooperation project alongside the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). "We are about to build...
LAOS: Mascot opens new workwear factory
2014-01-02 14:27:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Danish workwear maker Mascot is continuing its expansion in Southeast Asia with the opening of a newly built factory in Laos.
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Obayashi receives contract to construct Nam Ngiep 1 hydropower project in Laos
2013-11-18 01:00:00| Power Technology
Obayashi has won a contract from Nam Ngiep 1 Power to provide civil engineering works for the 288MW Nam Ngiep 1 hydropower project in Borikhamxay, Laos.
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World Bank aids Laos' forests with $31 million-grant
2013-08-12 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoSeed: The World Bank has signed a grant agreement of $31.83 million to aid the Government of Lao People's Democratic Republic's sustainable forest management project. The $31.83 million grant agreement is for Laos' Scaling-Up Participatory Sustainable Forest Management Project, which aims to achieve in the expansion of areas under approved Participatory Sustainable Forest Management plans, as well as development and piloting of a landscape approach to forest management, is in support of REDD+ to further...
IFC and Deutsche Bank bankrolling Vietnamese land grabs in Cambodia and Laos
2013-05-13 02:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global Witness: The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank are financing Vietnamese rubber companies driving a wave of land and forest "grabs" in Cambodia and Laos, according to a new report and film by Global Witness. The report, Rubber Barons, reveals how a pervasive culture of secrecy around plantation investments in the region has allowed two of Vietnams largest companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the state-owned Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG), to acquire more than 200,000 hectares of...