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Transboundary haze: The hidden price of cheap maize
December 30, 2020
Industrial maize farming in Myanmar’s Shan State is devastating families and landscapes as well as fuelling ever-increasing levels of transboundary haze, generating urgent calls for serious changes to animal feed supply chains.
Cambodian farmers can no longer rely on the Tonle Sap lake
May 11, 2021
The seasonal flooding of Asia’s largest freshwater lake is being disrupted by upstream dams and climate change – and affecting 4.8 million people
Envoys refute China’s water hegemony on Mekong River with in-person visits
May 11, 2021
"When I heard Western countries talking about the damage by the Chinese dams to the Mekong River, I felt like it is serious. But when I came to see, the fact is very different from what they said. The dams are very good to protect the environment and rare animals, and especially for preventing floods and drought in downstream countries," Sreng Sataro, minister counselor of the Embassy of Cambodia in China, told the Global Times after his visit. "You see the Western media ignore the facts as they did with my country," he noted.