THAILAND

The great rail dilemma

News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 22/07/2018

» Being erected along green fields in the outback of Vientiane, where Lao farmers still busily grow rice, are a great number of meticulously situated colossal concrete columns waiting to support a high-speed railway which will connect China with Laos and change this agrarian society into a prosperous economy. Or so they say.