Laos

BMI View: GDP growth should remain high in the coming years as Laos profits from a strong demand for its energy and natural resources. Moreover, signs of an increasing willingness... 2008-07-25

BMI View: The prospects continue to look good for Laos as rising oil prices raise demand for its hydropower and agricultural resources. Inflation has picked slightly to 7.7% y-o-y... 2008-06-10

BMI View: GDP growth should remain high in the coming years as Laos profits from a strong demand for its energy and natural resources. Moreover, signs of an increasing willingness... 2008-05-29

BMI View: Asian governments have good reasons to fear Kosovo's recent secession from Serbia. Virtually every Asian country has a territory or ethnic minority that has sought or is... 2008-03-10

BMI View: Laos' GDP growth has been boosted in recent years as neighbours China, Thailand and Vietnam compete for Laos's natural resources. GDP expansion in 2007 has been estimated... 2008-01-09

BMI View: GDP growth should remain high in the coming years as Laos's neighbours are in an intensifying battle for its energy and natural resources. Moreover, signs of an increasing... 2008-01-09

Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh has called for an increased integration of the ASEAN economies and China on the back of a free trade agreement signed in 2005. Lao and Chinese... 2007-06-11

On June 4, US prosecutors arrested ten people in California on charges of plotting a violent overthrow of the Lao government. The arrested face charges of conspiracy and violations... 2007-06-05

Vietnam and Laos have agreed to strengthen co-operation between the two countries' legislative bodies. Vietnam's National Assembly and Laos' Thongsing Thammavong are to organise study... 2007-05-14

On 20 March, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China, the countries making up the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), signed the Cross-Border Transport Agreement (CBTA),... 2007-04-11