Four photographers and local community members captured Thailand’s anti-Rasi Salai dam movement in 1990s, showing protests and activities of resistance and ways of life that no longer exist.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Spotlight on the right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia
Citizens across Southeast Asia recognize the right to a healthy environment in their countries’ laws, policies, and juridical system.
Sustaining Vietnam’s Robusta through uncertainty
A discreet movement of smallholders within Vietnam’s massive coffee industry are leading efforts to ensure the industry’s survival amidst extensive climate change and market threats.
Cambodia’s giant life-giving Tonle Sap lake in peril
More than a million people live on or around the lake, the world’s largest inland fishery, but water levels have plummeted and fish stocks dwindled because of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong.
More dams would devastate the ailing Mekong River
New dams are in the works. Laos, a landlocked and impoverished nation, is planning to construct a new 684-megawatt dam at the cost of $2 billion with Chinese backing. Most of the electricity generated would be exported to neighboring Thailand, which already has a surplus of electricity to meet domestic demand.
Mekong Delta sees positive results from climate-change adaptation measures
The saline intrusion during the period caused only 10 per cent damage compared to that during saline intrusion that occurred in the 2015-2016 period.
1st expressway in Laos inaugurated
The Vientiane-Vangvieng section of the China-Laos expressway, the first highway in Laos jointly constructed by the Lao government and China’s Yunnan Construction and Investment Holding Group (YCIH), was inaugurated on Sunday.
Trash talk: Why waste management is not a throwaway business
As waste continues to increase on Phnom Penh streets and decrease government coffers, everyone from policymakers to the public wants a solution.
Germany assists Thailand to ‘go green’
Thailand agreed to adopt a circular economy and clean technology, as the country has environmental problems, especially with PM2.5, which need environmental friendly production to help reduce them.
Can Tho int’l workshop seeks to raise farmers’ income
An international workshop was recently held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho to seek ways to raise income for Vietnamese farmers.