Nguyen Thanh Trung, a representative from the Green Innovation and Development Centre (Green ID), said that the project targets to introduce and consolidate multi-actor partnerships towards the goal of 100 percent renewable energy use in Nepal, Uganda and Vietnam.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Cambodia blocks Angkor Wat resort, will Laos stop the dam at its UNESCO site?
hough Laos may not respect UNESCO’s wishes, the argument that the dam goes against the government’s own promises regarding the country’s national identity is compelling. Though Laos may not see the enormous risks involved in the Luang Prabang dam, it may be able to recognize its own commitments.
Local natural resources chief caught soliciting B2m bribe from timber trader
He and others were charged with colluding in demanding a 2-million-baht payment in exchange for facilitating the return to Laos of a large amount of phayung wood (Siamese rosewood) seized in an earlier case.
KOICA provides $2 million for establishment of Master Plan of Eastern Mekong Delta
The project aims at mitigating the damages caused by natural disasters such as floods in wet season and droughts in dry season and increasing agricultural productivity for revitalisation of national and regional economic development.
Drought is no disaster, says Prawit
During the past few months, the government has applied nine measures to combat the drought, including the development of groundwater resources and tightening control over water consumption in water-intensive rice cropping and other crop harvesting in the Chao Phraya River basin.
From the bookshelf: ‘In the dragon’s shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese century’
And China has mirrored its construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea by damming the upper Mekong River, giving Chinese dam engineers the power of life and death over large swathes of the downstream Mekong nations.
Thai, Cambodia, Vietnam Ambassadors Urge ASEAN, US support for Mekong Management
The ambassadors of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia have called for greater support from the U.S. and the ASEAN regional bloc to address urgent environmental threats to the Mekong River. They also emphasized the need for improved water data sharing by all countries on the river, including China.
New boss same as old boss in reshuffled Laos
Laos’ economic options, however, remain limited. Land-locked and with few trading links other than to China, Thailand and Vietnam, its economic future is restricted to debt-accruing infrastructure development and hydropower production, the key sources of its economic growth.
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region needs $16.5B over five years to foster sustainable development
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region needs 338 trillion dong ($16.5 billion) over the next five years to upgrade its traffic infrastructure, improve water storage and mitigate riverbank and coastal erosion.
Volatile Mekong threatens birds’ nests
Predictive flow data is not so helpful since, “we can’t negotiate with those who are in control of the water flow. The key to reducing environmental impacts on both birds and other animals is to let the Mekong river run naturally.”