Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Thailand’s southern provinces suffering Sumatran burn-off smoke haze
Smoke drifting across the Malacca Strait from Sumatran forest fires in Indonesia is affecting the health of locals and tourists in the southern province of Songkhla.
Ministry urges farmers to save water
Farmers urged to use water more efficiently as there is less water behind the country’s more than 300 reservoirs and dams despite the current rainy season.
Laos hydropower plant begins operation
The Nam Ngiep 1 project will export most of its electricity to Thailand, but also serve the domestic market.
Parties want assessment of environmental, social and economic impacts of EEC
The Democrat and Future Forward parties have separately demanded that the House set up an ad hoc committee to assess the impacts of Thailand’s massive Eastern Economic Corridor projects.
Seeking nature’s welfare for our own
Two Vietnamese women are demonstrating how nature can do so much more for humankind when efforts are made to work within its bounds.
Tigers are doomed if efforts to save them remain wanting
Just two decades ago Cambodia still had one of the world’s highest tiger populations, according to some estimates. Yet within a decade almost all the big cats in the war-torn country lost out to habitat loss and poachers.