"Paper Mill Asks For Time to Deal With Pollution in Laos' Savannakhet Province", 10 July 2018

The operators of a Chinese-owned paper mill whose wastewater discharges into a nearby stream have killed fish and cows in Sepon district of southern Laos' Savannakhet province have asked local authorities for more time to eliminate foul odors that are making local residents sick.

The smell of the polluted water has spread to many villages within a five to seven square kilometers of the plant owned by China’s Sun Paper Group....

...“Since May, it [the mill] has produced such bad odors that students have been getting sick and are vomiting.”

...The owners of the plant agreed to mitigate the foul odors within 15 days....