Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Why Cambodia’s Poverty Statistics Dispute Matters
Hun Sen claims to have radically improved Cambodia’s living standards, thus blind eyes should be turned as his regime becomes more repressive and dictatorial.
Hun Sen says now invasion: Chinese visitors and workers will eventually return to their country
Hun Sen says now invasion: Chinese visitors and workers will eventually return to their country
“I feel helpless and useless” – struggles since Lao dam collapse
Three months since the dam failure cut a path of destruction through 13 villages, many communities are finally able to move into government-built temporary housing.
VN to scrap hydropower projects
During rainy season, water discharged from the plants along with flooding from upstream inundate a number of areas, causing landslides, sweeping away homes and bridges, and damaging roads.
Vietnam provinces want environmentally-friendly LNG power
Three investors – one Vietnamese, one South Korean and one Thai – already contacted the People’s Committee about building an LNG power plant at the site originally planned for coal.
In pursuit of a paradigm shift in development
Furthering a hub in Asia that contributes to the production of holistic knowledge on sustainable development is urgently needed to transform a non-people friendly development model.