Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
EIA and SIA begin in Kyaukphyu SEZ and Kyaukphyu deep seaport port
Seventy percent of project will be owned by China, 30 percent by Myanmar. Myanmar’s share will be distributed to the government and public companies including “ethnics”.
Work begins on $142 mln irrigation system in Mekong delta
The system would combine with a coastal dam in the region to combat climate change, rising sea levels and flooding, as well as to develop infrastructure for road transport, it added.
Thailand to ban three pesticides. US government says no
In a nod to major agricultural chemical manufacturers, the Trump administration pressures Thailand not to ban three pesticides that research shows to be particularly dangerous to children and other vulnerable populations.
Laos Defends Latest Plans to Dam the Mekong
MRC experts say plans for the Luang Prabang dam are short of key details: its potential ecological impacts to lost fish spawning grounds, how turbines would actually prove “fish friendly,” and compensation for communities.
The Lake That Feeds The Mekong Basin Is Facing A Shortage Of Fish
Upriver dams and a devastating drought this year brought the Mekong to its lowest level ever recorded. And the combination has left the Tonle Sap Lake—Southeast Asia’s largest—in crisis.
No scientific evidence Mekong Delta will go under: Vietnam PM
“That information is just a study that has not been appraised yet and no state agency has come to such a conclusion,” he told a National Assembly (NA) meeting in Hanoi.