Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Environment Ministry responds to deforestation claim
Denounces public criticism blaming deforestation as the major factor for high temperatures in the Kingdom.
World’s largest ivory seizure in Da Nang
Investigations document how weak law enforcement, corruption and a marked lack of political will in Vietnam render it an attractive centre for wildlife criminals.
Govt panel holds meeting on water conservation plans
he Subcommittee on Water Situation Analysis has urged sectors to manage the water resources as planned.
Fighting pollution in Laos
The convenience of plastic is taking its toll as a growing economy means plastic waste is on the increase and its problem has become an epidemic.
Return of land taken from indigenous people ‘unprecedented’.
Cambodia has returned land taken a decade ago from indigenous communities for a Vietnamese company’s rubber plantation.