Laos: Chinese demand for sand and cement delivers wage for Laotian workers – but is destroying the Mekong

Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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China world’s top consumer of sand – devouring more than 60 per cent of the global output and using more in four years than the US did in the entire 20th century…

Read Full Article; SCMP (07-27-2016)