In April 2023, the Boten-Vientiane line in Laos welcomed its first passengers. This high-speed train, a symbol of Beijing’s New Silk Road initiative, connects the Laotian capital Vientiane to southern ...

Across Asia, once-backward regions have surged in the boom that's lifted millions out of poverty--monuments to the Asian economic miracle. But there have been grand schemes that went spectacularly ...

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BOTEN, Laos — For five years, this remote town on the China-Laos border has lived in the shadow of more prosperous times. On the main street, weeds grow where bustling shops and restaurants once stood ...

Chinese people walk outside a casino in the border town of Boten in 2011. Laos is ending gambling in the former casino enclave of Boten on the Chinese border because of worries about crime, state ...

Section 4 will run from Oudomxay to Boten - a border crossing on the Lao side that links with China’s Mohan border gate. - Wikipedia VIENTIANE: Deputy Prime Minister Saleumxay Kommasith has urged a ...

AT HOME and abroad, China is a byword for fast-track development, where yesterday's paddy field is tomorrow's factory, highway or hotel. Less noticed is that such development can just as quickly go ...

The recently signed Joint General Scheme of Mohan–Boten Economic Cooperation Zone is the first cross-border economic cooperation zone that China has established in Laos and, for that matter, in the ...

Phase 1, which stretches 109km from Lao capital Vientiane to Vangvieng, was completed in 2021. - VT VIENTIANE: The Lao government has approved the construction of the fourth section of an expressway ...

Boten Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in northern Laos bordering China is anticipating investment of at least 10 billion U.S. dollars to fully develop the site, according to a zone representative. The ...

At 4 p.m. every Friday, 12-year-old Wang Chao and his classmate Li Xiaojin finish class in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan, gather their belongings, and set off on foot toward the Lao border.