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News channel or source: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/villagers-11022017150047.html
Published on: Thursday 02 November 2017
Fourteen villagers in Laos’s Sekong province jailed since July for cutting down rubber trees on farm land claimed by a Vietnamese company are being held incommunicado, with some in failing health, ...
News Laos » Sekong » Finance: New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong
News channel or source: https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-mapping-reveals-hidden-mining-boom-in-laos-that-threatens-the-mekong/
Published on: Tuesday 09 December 2025
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Satellite analysis has identified 517 suspected riverbank mines in Laos, many likely illegal, with clusters along key Mekong tributaries, raising ...
News Laos » Sekong » Finance: WWF-Laos signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office of Sekong province
News channel or source: https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?335134/WWF-Laos-signed-a-Memorandum-of-Agreement-with-the-Provincial-Agriculture-and-Forestry-Office-of-Sekong-province
Published on: Thursday 20 September 2018
WWF-Laos signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the provincial agriculture and forestry office (PAFO) of Sekong province that extended the activities of Avoidance of Deforestation and Forest ...