Priorities include flood and drought mitigation plans, database management on flood and drought, hydromet network improvements, and regional capacity building on flood and drought management.
Category: Mekong
Interview: China’s Mekong Dam-building Mindset ‘Exported Downstream’ to Cambodia and Laos
Despite a stack of peer-reviewed studies that show that building lots of upstream dams on the Mekong will have devastating impacts, there are insufficient decision-making mechanisms recognizing the risks.
Feature: Mekong river binds regional countries, peoples together as lifeblood of Southeast Asia
From China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the river, the Chinese stretch of which is called the Lancang river, runs through southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Thai Tycoon Declares Coal Doomed in Last Bastion of Big Bank Aid
The billionaire, whose wealth has surged about 22% this year, is seeking to expand his company’s reach into some of the poorest parts of Southeast Asia without using coal,
Study examines forest loss in Mekong region
ll countries in the region are still consistently losing primary forest and facing forest degradation from agricultural expansion, infrastructure development, mining operations, forest fires, and civil conflict.
African swine fever keeps spreading in Asia, threatening food security
Vietnam and Cambodia probably do not have the technical abilities to be able to control ASF, and the virus will soon surface in Myanmar and Laos, which have weak veterinary infrastructures and surveillance systems.
Japan’s Strategy in the Mekong Region
From the economic dimension, Mekong-Japan Cooperation is a tool to support synergy between government and private sector in fostering Japan’s presence in the region.
Regional cooperation needed to protect precious marine environment
Five of the top 10 global polluting countries are ASEAN members, thus urgent collective action and co-operation is needed for achieving an effective and sustainable solution.
World can meet climate and energy goals without harmful hydropower – report
Southeast Asia can develop low carbon, low cost power systems that do not require dams on the Mekong river or its few remaining, free-flowing major tributaries.