Asean ignores the impending implosion of the Mekong’s ecosystem at its peril, as the fallout will not be confined to the subregion. Food security challenges in the Mekong basin are a cause for region-wide concern since the countries along the river’s length are among the world’s biggest rice exporters.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Villagers angry over attempt to remove forest leader
“The reason why there is a petition to remove Tuk is that he protected the forest from perpetrators who wanted to carry out illegal logging activities.”
The missing variable: How climate change is affecting Cambodian fish harvesters
What the researchers didn’t realize until later was that climate change was actually affecting the fishers in two significant ways that weren’t at all obvious from their data.
UK and Thailand to Cooperate in New Era of Smart City Development
The UK and Thailand have jointly launched the “UK Thailand Tech Export Academy”. The purpose of the collaboration is to promote the development of “smart cities” to be constructed across Thailand. So far, the initiative has involved the matching of over 200 businesses from the UK and Thailand.
New Pursat dam project 90% finished
According to the Pursat Provincial Administration, the dam is part of the Greater Mekong Sub-region Flood and Drought Risk Management and Mitigation Project which is funded by the Asian Development Bank.
National water resource security scheme discussed
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Water Resource Management Department convened an online meeting with relevant units in Hanoi on May 17 to discuss building a scheme to ensure national water resource security.
France aids Mekong River monitoring program
EUR 1.5 million to increase the ability of the MRC and its member countries, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, to monitor rainfall and river flow in order to better understand flow changes and corresponding impacts of development projects and climate change on riverine communities and the environment, especially water quality, sediment, and fisheries.
Kingdom seeks buyers for crude amid discouraging production
The statement came after the media and civil society raised concerns about the Kingdom’s ‘failures’ in the oil and gas sector due to the lower-than-planned output of the five wells in the Apsara oilfield located in Block A that lies over the Khmer Basin in the Gulf of Cambodia.
Boten: the Renaissance of Laos’s Golden City
The one-time casino boom town on the Laos-China border is on the rise again, powered by billions in Chinese investment.
Mekong Delta needs over US$346 mln to tackle severe landslides
The worse landslides in the Mekong Delta have been due to the exploitation of water resources on the upstream rivers, especially the hydropower projects in the Mekong river’s mainstream during nearly a decade.