Each wooden cart made in U Than Win’s workshop is a month-long jigsaw of 140 parts. But Chinese tractors are replacing his durable creations.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Dragon uses water as a strategic weapon to control lower riparian states
This is clear from the manner it has built a large number of dams and dikes to control the flow of rivers on the Indus, Brahmaputra and Mekong.
Thao Nguyen Phan review – tribute to the Mekong River’s myth and might
The Mekong is the broken harp string, the thread forced beyond its power. A mighty river that has sustained life for millennia; mined for sand and drained for irrigation; dammed and over-fished.
Delta national park: 13 bird species facing extinction
They include the red-headed crane, yellow – breasted bunting, common kestrel, eastern grass owl, eastern marsh – harrier, spot billed pelican, painted storks, and white-rumped shama.
Activists take aim at ‘One China Policy’ at embassy protest
“The Chinese government has been known to hoard water resources only for themselves, greed in controlling every resource possible is not acceptable. It’s inhumane.”
Dam developer to compensate local residents
The project will affect over 6,007ha of forest land, over 850ha of jungle and 4,291ha of brushwood and over 38ha of houses occupied by 347 families.
Vietnam: urgent joint actions to conserve biodiversity
Natural Resources Minister stressed that it’s time for all, from leaders to civilians, besides using political and legal tools, to consider biodiversity conservation a moral issue.
Journalists attacked after reporting forestry crime4 min read
The group of about five suspects then returned to their truck to chase after the journalists, eventually crashing into their car and running it off the side of the road.
Land reform: A vote-winner for the NLD
Myanmar’s land laws are a hodgepodge of disparate and often conflicting regulations introduced by previous ruling regimes.