The EU is about to launch their “Doh Gabar” (Our Earth) campaign, a six-week multimedia digital exhibition featuring the creative works of Myanmar visual artists, celebrities and eco-champions.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
China can be sued for choking Mekong
Beijing’s actions breach the UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses.
Laos Plans New Coal-Fired Power Plant in Sekong Province
Health experts say local communities near Laos’ first coal plant completed in 2015 are at risk of cancer, respiratory problems, and birth defects from pollution.
Climate finance helps people adapt to change
The Mekong Delta project’s goal is to support climate-smart land- and water-management practices. On the ground, this means helping farmers transition to climate-resilient agricultural and aquacultural practices.
China’s BRI strategy and Laos
Consistent engagement with China could potentially allow Beijing to have an easy hold over them and become a tool to push through their own strategic interests.
‘Stop grabbing forest land’
When Forestry Administration officials went to the forest to put up signs banning logging, we discovered land theft and the creation of ownership certificates for state land.
Banking on the sea
By December 2019, crews from 45 trawlers were participating in the release programme in Thailand’s Surat Thani Province alone – with over 4,000 berried female crabs returned to the sea to spawn.
Analysts: Rising Debt Burden Could Make Laos More Reliant on China
What China gets from the bilateral relationship ranges from Vientiane resisting joint ASEAN action in the South China Sea, to a pending rail line that will link China to Laos and, eventually, its neighbors.
Myanmar to build high-quality oil refineries
Refineries will be built in Myanmar’s central region through China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline and new Integrated Refinery and Petrochemical Complex will be constructed near Yangon.