Phnom Penh, once known for its French colonial villas and modernist “New Khmer Architecture,” is becoming unrecognizable.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Water from the air saves drought-plagued regions in Vietnam
Water extracting machines powered by the sun are hoped to be applied in remote disadvantaged regions around Vietnam.
Rights issues from transborder investments in focus at forum
From Malaysia, Myanmar and Laos, to Indonesia, the impacts from transborder investments were discussed at the forum organised by Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission and Forest People Programme. It ends tomorrow.
Cambodia juggles energy need V risk new Chinese dam could ‘kill the Mekong’
In June 2018, a leaked environmental impact assessment report on the proposed Sambor Hydropower Dam could “literally kill the [Mekong] river”.