it is clear that natural disasters are becoming increasingly fierce, while also unusual and difficult to predict.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Myanmar must boost efforts to eliminate malaria: study
Myanmar needs special strategies to meet its goal of eliminating the mosquito-borne disease malaria by 2030, a recent study has said.
Deciphering the Black Box of Air Pollution Data In Thailand
The causes vary greatly depending on location and dealing with the problem requires to go out of the box, address the real causes and have a portfolio of short-, medium- and long-term actions.
The Inside Story of Thailand and Myanmar’s Troubled Dawei Mega-Project
Thai government remains committed to loaning Bt4.5 billion for Myanmar’s construction of a 139-km road to link Dawei with Kanchanaburi province on the Thai border.
Govt Vows Action After Myanmar Villagers Demand Fertilizer Factory’s Closure Over Pollution
In December 2020, township health officials also urged the villagers to stop using water from the village’s pond because the color of the water in the pond had changed and lotus leaves in the pond had been damaged,
480,000 killed by extreme weather this century: analysis
An analysis of more than 11,000 extreme weather events showed nearly 480,000 fatalities since 2000, with Puerto Rico, Myanmar and Haiti the worst hit countries.
US shares experience in environmental management
The US’s experience in environmental management and air quality control in Vietnam were touched upon at a seminar in Hanoi on January 25.
Coastal communities to adapt for climate change
Funded by the Global Environmental Facility’s Least-Developed Country Fund (LDCF), the project will help coastal fishing communities and protected areas in Cambodia’s main four coastal provinces.
Lao leadership shuffle will see precarious development
The Lao government has adhered to an agenda that gambles the country’s international reputation and is also starkly out of step with its stated goals around sustainable development
Thailand to put world’s largest floating solar farm into use this June
The 45 MW floating solar farm is designed to be a hybrid system, working in tandem with 36MW of hydropower generation to increase optimisation capacity.