Move to approve new coal-fired power plants has prompted concern about potential environmental and health costs despite the government pledging to strictly enforce environmental regulations.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Thailand tackles worst drought in 40 years
The severe drought is adding pressure to Thailand’s struggling economy and its agricultural sector, which employs 11 million people.
Project to empower women launched
Transparency International Cambodia new project will enable young women to set up mechanisms to exchange views and find solutions to strengthen public services and accountability to meet the people’s needs.
Hau Giang focuses on sustainable agriculture development
The Mekong Delta province will increasingly apply high technologies to improve yield and quality of agricultural produce, reduce production costs, and adapt to climate change,
HARNESSING SALWEEN RIVER: Settlement through confrontation or cooperation?
An all-embracing deliberation on resource governance, including the potential to harness rivers, needs to come after peace negotiations bring a political settlement to the ongoing ethnic conflicts.
Amid hydropower boom, Laos streams ahead on latest Mekong dam
Faced with growing pressure from dams, pollution and sand mining, concerns are mounting about the health of the river and those whose livelihoods depend on it.
Hydropower and the worsening water crisis for Myanmar and Asia
Many people who could be directly affected in the Kachin, Shan and Kayin states are voting with their feet in public demonstrations. As their banners make clear, they say no to dam building.
Cambodia wants to turn Preah Sihanouk into ‘second Shenzhen”
“We don’t want Sihanoukville to be a ‘casino place’, but an industrial city, which provides technological, economic and tourism services.”