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Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Central Highlands shun hydropower plants
Most of them are situated in natural forests.
Vietnam Scraps Controversial Plan to Dump Sludge in Binh Thuan Sea
Public opposition prompted Vietnamese authority to scrap plans to dump about 1 million cubic meters of sludge into the Binh Thuan Sea.
Speed up land titles: Indigenous groups
The Indigenous People Network and civil society organisations yesterday asked the government to speed up registration of indigenous collective lands.
All-powerful agency being established to improve water management
Experts have backed the government’s plan to establish a single all-encompassing organisation to combine the efforts of different agencies and oversee the country’s water management policies.
Belt and Road can’t be taken as a cash machine
The nitiative needs basic infrastructure, but cannot solely rely on mega projects worth billions of dollars. The infrastructure projects have to match the industrialization level of the host country, or they cannot be sustained.
Deforestation linked to health problems
New research published this week finds that deforestation In Cambodia is associated with increased risk of childhood morbidity and mortality
Probe of Lao Timber Trucks Likely “Never-Ending”: CSO Official
High-ranking Lao officials are regularly involved in illegal logging and cross-border sales, despite a ban on the export of timber issued by Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith in May last year.
Asean to give infrastructure a big push
ASEAN governments are set to speed up implementation of large infrastructure projects by taking advantage of the fast growth and the ample liquidity in the global financial market.
Vietnam’s sinking rice bowl
The Mekong Delta is the most fertile area in Vietnam, and also the most fragile: It is the country’s rice bowl, and it is now slowly sinking into the sea.