Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Neglecting Myanmar’s biodiversity means cost and conflict for businesses
Yangon-based Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business recently published a briefing paper on biodiversity, human rights and business, advising stakeholders on how some types of investment can negatively affect biodiversity and hence affect human rights.
Laos govt to pay compensation to families displaced by railway
Arbitration solution committees in Vientiane and the provinces together with the project developer have agreed on settlements with local people and 94 per cent of the land required for the railway has now been acquired.
How to Transition One of the Fastest-Growing Economies in the World to a Green Growth Model
The Global Green Growth Institute is looking for opportunities for the Cambodian government and investors that can be developed into profitable activities. Their approach is that greening offers economic opportunities.
How indigenous ‘vigilante’ grandfathers protect forest life
A group of elders, frustrated with state response, protect forest from looting against backdrop of rising deforestation.
Lao think tank tackles plan to maximize value of Laos-China railway
The Lao government’s top economic research agency has suggested that investment focus in areas that would make use of and maximize the benefits of the Laos-China railway.
Seminar talks marine planning, coastal ecosystems in Mekong Delta
The Delta’s marine economic activities have not yet been harmoniously associated with social development and environmental protection.
Is the race to the bottom over?
Everybody speaks about a ‘race to the bottom’ in the world of work. For brick workers enduring debt-bondage in Cambodia the race might already be over.