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.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
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.
Cambodia’s Coming AI Revolution
For a long time, the narrative around Cambodia was around textile sweatshops and tourism…but that’s something the younger generation are changing.
Report highlights Kingdom’s land woes
Land disputes remain a chronic issue that has affected more than 20,000 families across the country, with some cases allegedly involving authorities who collude with traders or private firms to grab people’s land, a report released by the NGO Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community (CCFC) says.
China to deepen EEC focus
To invest in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor project and the country’s agricultural technology as part of its effort to support the Thailand 4.0 policy while furthering its own One Belt, One Road initiative.
Lao Governor Walks Back Projected Costs For Housing in Flood-Hit Attapeu
The governor of a province in Laos hit by flooding from a dam breach earlier this year has issued conflicting estimates of the projected cost to house displaced persons, giving figures deemed unnecessarily high by another official source and contradicting statements he himself had made earlier in an interview.
How Can Asia Unleash the Potential of Youth?
Asian countries like Cambodia need young people’s help to create a sustainable future.