As the population get richer and people drive more cars, they obviously need to park somewhere and the lack of parking spaces in Vientiane are making drivers park on the pavement.

This causes a two way street to become narrow and turn into one road, and drivers must effectively drive in the middle of the road over the white markings and give way or slow down to oncoming cars in what is meant to be a two way street.

Pedestrians can't even walk on the side of the road either, and have to step onto the road.

Pavement parking is causing a problem in Vientiane

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Yes, maybe they drove from a dusty area.

its gonna be like china where almost all their city are pollute
air and water. I hope the local authority come up with laws
where cars n trucks aren't allow in certain area.

Catastrophic air pollution problem in cities in China is mainly caused by the direct results of too many of the population burning coal for cooking and heating.  Major cities in China are built on lowland basins with highland plateaus surrounding lowland basins. Therefore there is limited air flow to push the coal induced smog away from these cities because the highland plateaus restrict the air flow over these cities.

Buk Nut wrote on 17^th Jan, 2017 at 2:09am:


The problem with developing countries like China and Thailand is their ignorance of environmental concerns and lack of environmental regulations. I am sure most motorbikes, cars and trucks over in China and Thailand use mainly diesel and without set emission regulations. People slash and burning, bad emissions from vehiclse, coal burning, factory emissions not following emission standards (or lack thereof) will create a smog filled sky. This is just a phase during the development process of any society where land, river and sky make sacrifices.

China men are ignorant to environmental issues from rapid development. They even built cities with high rises and what not and do not have any China men living in. Their development looks good on paper that they are developed but does not look good if no one is living in them.
https://youtu.be/2r_84fnKQco

Shanghai?

my bad peter maybe just a few left that's still has clean air