Foreign Minister Motegi’s recent visit underlines Tokyo’s sense of urgency. This includes funding Cambodia’s biggest deep sea port development.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Tackling waste with Doh Eain
The project aims to encourage people to separate their waste produce, into dry and wet material, and to compost the wet waste – to be used by the residents to grow vegetables and plants.
Sarus cranes in Myanmar: A conservation success story
In the 1960s and ’70s, the birds had gone extinct in Thailand and the Philippines.
NGOs Demand Cambodia Scrap Draft Law Citing Potential Abuse of Women’s Rights
Three dozen organizations call for scrapping draft laws pertaining dress codes for females and other provisions they claim violate women’s human rights.
Mekong Delta province declares state of emergency as waves erode embankment
Since 2007, erosion has caused it to lose some 9,000 ha of protective forest.
Vietnam’s main coconut area attacked by pest for first time
Pesticides in use to kill black – headed caterpillars (Opisina Arenosella Walker) which have appeared for the first time in the Mekong province, damaging coconut trees.
China Backs Myanmar Probe of Controversial Border ‘New City’
Criticism from locals over what they see as a lack of transparency, as well as confusion over the scale of construction and a growing influx of Chinese migrants.