{"id":14663,"date":"2018-09-11T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14663"},"modified":"2018-09-11T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:30:11","slug":"laos-to-keep-building-dams-despite-negative-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14663","title":{"rendered":"Laos to keep building dams despite negative impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65\">\n<p>Laos is pushing ahead with plans to build more dams along the Mekong River in spite of a deadly collapse in July and the negative impact dams have had on the environment and people who make their living off the rivers.<\/p>\n<p>It wants to become Asia&#8217;s battery, exporting electricity to its wealthier neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Wayne Hay reports from Chiang Khong, Thailand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laos is pushing ahead with plans to build more dams along the Mekong River in spite of a deadly collapse in July and the negative impact dams have had on the environment and people who make their living off the rivers. It wants to become Asia&#8217;s battery, exporting electricity to its wealthier neighbours. Al Jazeera\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}