Secretive agents in Laos are sending dozens of animals each year across the country’s land border with China and fly others to the Middle East.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Laos’ hydropower ambitions threaten Mekong fishing villages
Developing hydropower is threatening the numerous fishing villages that line the Mekong River, which are seeing fish stocks dwindle as new dams spring up.
UN climate talks ‘flawed’, could sabotage efforts
Activists say inequality is built into negotiation system, smaller countries being drowned out
Save the Mekong Coalition Boycotts Consultation Process of the Pak Lay Dam
Groups within the Mekong region issued a statement announcing their intention to boycott the Mekong River Commission’s (MRC’s) Prior Consultation for the proposed Pak Lay dam.
Myanmar-Thailand highway branded ‘ecological and social disaster’
Community and conservation groups in Myanmar say the planned highway linking a port project to Thailand will uproot indigenous people from their homes and farms.
Cambodia’s plastic problem
Phnom Penh is facing a massive pollution problem because of the widespread use of plastic packaging and poor waste management services.
Bangkok is sinking. How will Thailand’s capital cope when flooding disaster strikes again?
With the weight of skyscrapers contributing to the city’s gradual descent into water, Bangkok has become a victim of its own frenetic development.
Vietnam’s economic zones derailed by anti-China protests
he Vietnamese government’s plan to open the country’s first three special economic zones have been stalled until next year at the earliest due to large demonstrations by those wary of an influx of Chinese businesses.
Myanmar to trim Chinese loans to avoid debt trap
China’s BRI has run into a hurdle in Myanmar, with Naypyidaw reducing the scope of Beijing’s loans for the Kyaukpyu Port, fearing a debt trap.
Mekong Military Ties in Focus with Border Exchange
Countries through which the Mekong River – one of the world’s largest, longest rivers – runs, have been working on ways to manage the opportunities and challenges that come from their shared borders.