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Category: Mekong
The Batteries Are Coming, Are Energy Planners Paying Attention?
Consumers and commercial enterprise are already getting in the game. It’s time for utilities to join them.
Mekong subregion shapes up for tourism influx
Infrastructure and services demand seen rising sharply
Upstream Projects Risk Mekong Delta Disaster
FEARS are rising in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam about food and social insecurity caused by hydropower dams and water-diversion projects planned or already started further upstream.
State agencies face legal dispute over Pak Beng dam
CITIZENS from eight Thai provinces along the Mekong River are suing state agencies because they claim there was inadequate public participation in planning for the Pak Beng hydropower dam, which is being built by Laos.
Laos provides clarifications on Mekong dam to river commission
The Lao government on Thursday provided clarifications and further information on major concerns about its Pak Beng dam.
Regional cooperation ‘key’ to Mekong projects
As nations in the Greater Mekong Subregion suffer a rise in water shortages and salinity intrusion, governments need to cooperate in order to safeguard the livelihood of residents in the river basin and their diverse cultures, experts said.
Will there be a logistics center in the Mekong Delta?
Can Tho City, the heart of Mekong Delta, has been chosen by the government as the site to build Mekong Delta’s logistics center with total area of 242 hectares in the Cai Cui Port area.
Push for labelling laws to have restaurants and takeaway shops tell us where our seafood comes from
SOUTH Australian seafood, there’s nothing like it. Tucking into a fisherman’s basket on the foreshore is a Croweater’s birthright — but do we really know what we’re eating?
A rising chorus of voices condemns Laos’ planned Pak Beng dam
Activists, technical experts, and officials from other Mekong Basin countries have recently spoken out against plans to construct a mainstream dam at Pak Beng.