THAILAND will highlight water management, connectivity, sustainable development and people-to-people relations at this week’s Lancang-Mekong foreign ministers meeting in China
Category: Laos
Medicinal plant potential under scrutiny
The project supports Laos’ research and development of traditional medicines, the first step towards commercial production for domestic and export sales.
Human rights advice for Thais who invest abroad
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights has provided three recommendations to prevent human rights violations stemming from Thai investment overseas.
Decree defines criteria for upgrading large villages to small towns
To be certified as a small town, a village in a mountainous rural area must have at least 1,000 inhabitants.
From friends to strangers: The decline of the Irrawaddy dolphin
Today the Mekong’s dolphins face a new threat. The proposed Sambor Dam on the river’s mainstream in Cambodia.
The Mekong, Dammed to Die
Laos is going forward with Don Sarong Dam, without approval from the Mekong River Commission and in defiance of protests from NGOs and downstream countries.
Lao makes its mark on the Mekong river
The Ban Mom port’s development will allow it to manage the influx of regional traffic and will also help combat the illegal trafficking of goods and contraband items to and from China.
Government to host meet on indigenous medicine in Greater Mekong
Myanmar will be hosting the eighth meeting on indigenous medicine in the Greater Mekong Basin in the coming week, according to a senior health ministry official.
Mekong Institute transforms the lives of coffee growers
Thailand-based Mekong Institute (MI) has taken on a mission to improve the lives of coffee growers in Vietnam and the outcome so far is encouraging.
Thai industrial park developer plumbs expansion on the Mekong
Amata Corp. of Thailand plans to develop industrial estates in cheaper neighboring countries along the Mekong River where it is betting manufacturing will pick up.