The Mekong has been on the brink of ecological crises for years, with major consequences for food supplies, livelihoods and nearly all aspects of life for the 60 million people who depend on the river.
Category: Mekong
Mekong – RoK cooperation facilitates regional economic integration: official
Forum brought together over 350 representatives of ministries, sectors, localities business associations and enterprises from the six involved countries.
Efforts underway to operationalise vital infra links between India, CLMV countries
And a project development fund was set up with a corpus of USD 75 million to promote trade and investments in CLMV countries.
Starving In A Pandemic
Despite the Cambodian government working towards ensuring a continuous operation of supply chains, food security is affected by lack of safety income-net for these Mekong delta inhabitants who are at the mercy of natural events and weather.
MRC charts new course as Ministerial Council reaches major conclusions
Commission to beef up its efforts to balance environmental protection and economic development in the Mekong Basin.
Mekong ministers approve navigation and environment plans
As for the new regional environmental management strategy, the MRC described this document as “the first of its kind that covers the whole Lower Mekong Basin.”
New Zealand and Flanders renew support to improve Mekong water management
Signed funding agreements worth close to US$ 5 million to back the MRC in implementing its new Strategic Plan 2021–2025.
Pollution Control Department Launches National Haze Forecast Website
The new “Mekong Air Quality Explorer” platform, named after the area it was initially designed to monitor, developed with the US Agency for International Development.
SERVIR-MEKONG INTRODUCES NEW AIR QUALITY EXPLORER POLLUTION MAPPING TOOL
To tackle the problem of air pollution monitoring in Thailand and the lower-Mekong River region