CHIANG KHONG, Thailand – Dismissing its neighbors' pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia's poorest people. The ...

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CHIANG KHONG, Thailand (AP) — Dismissing its neighbors’ pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia’s poorest people.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — Landlocked Laos ...