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.
Category: Mekong
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.
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.
World Bank fallacy of kinder, gentler dams
The World Bank-funded US$1.4 billion Nam Theun 2 dam in central Laos on the Mekong River was supposed to serve as showcase for a better kind of dam.
Landslides in Mekong Delta could lead to serious flooding
There are 562 landslide spots in Mekong Delta with total length of over 786 kilometers, according to the General Department of Disaster Prevention and Control.
Call for effective management of Mekong amid threats from projects and climate change
Scholars and environmentalists called for more effective management of the Mekong due to climate change and development
The other side of the Mekong development debate
The term “blasting the rapids” used in navigation channel improvement documents and EIAs sounds extremely negative in comparison with the reality: Pham Tuan Phan, MRC
Downstream Downturn: How Hydropower in Laos May Choke Vietnam
the damage these dams will have on Vietnam is beginning to appear. As the country farthest down the watershed, Vietnam will be subject to these compounded harms. The country will suffer considerably under the proposed dams, losing as much as 27 percent of its GDP in the next 20 years as the Mekong Delta shrinks.
With a surge in the Mekong, China shows disdain
A massive release of reservoir water into the river on short notice is hardly the act of a good neighbour
Mekong hydro resource coordination gets boost from France
Laos and France agreed to set up a new Coordination and Monitoring Centre (CMC) for energy and water resources management.