The water outflow at Jinghong hydropower station in China’s Yunnan province is dropping due to power grid maintenance during 5–24 January 2021, leading to changes in river water levels along the Mekong River in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia.
Category: Mekong
Strengthening India’s strategic ties with Mekong subregion
Though the subregional mechanism, the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC), exists — through which India engages with the five nations in the Mekong subregion — it focuses on socio-economic and cultural cooperation such as connectivity, trade, tourism, etc.
Cryptocurrencies Impacting The Environment
Bitcoin mining has already picked up in Southeast Asia, with Cambodia increasingly becoming a hub for cryptocurrency trading and mining perhaps due to its cheaper rent and electricity rates and loose regulations.
Laotian Plan To Build Another Big Mekong Dam Concerns Thais
The projects are controversial because of their environmental impact, displacement of villagers without adequate compensation, and questionable financial and power demand arrangements.
Spotlight on the right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia
Citizens across Southeast Asia recognize the right to a healthy environment in their countries’ laws, policies, and juridical system.
More dams would devastate the ailing Mekong River
New dams are in the works. Laos, a landlocked and impoverished nation, is planning to construct a new 684-megawatt dam at the cost of $2 billion with Chinese backing. Most of the electricity generated would be exported to neighboring Thailand, which already has a surplus of electricity to meet domestic demand.
Railways linking India, Myanmar, Southeast Asia possible
India’s foreign minister speaks on India’s Act East Policy
Korea, ASEAN agree to launch working-level dialogue on environment, climate change
South Korea is the third partner after Japan and the European Union to have such a dialogue channel on the environment and climate change with the 10-member ASEAN.
Mekong monitoring adds to US-China tensions
China welcomes constructive suggestions from countries outside the region on the development and utilization of water resources by countries in the region. But we firmly oppose malicious moves to drive a wedge between us.”
Chinese dams under U.S. scrutiny in Mekong rivalry
A U.S.-funded project using satellites to track and publish water levels at Chinese dams on the Mekong river was announced on Monday, adding to the superpowers’ rivalry in Southeast Asia.