Representatives from 17 cities and provinces of the Mekong Delta and Central Highlands gathered in Pleiku city, Gia Lai province, on March 14 to seek ways for sustainable development of the Mekong Basin
Category: Viet Nam
China Defends Dam Building on Mekong River as Activists Head to Court
Officials from southwest China’s Yunnan province have defended a plan to build a dam in the region as “fully legally compliant”, after an environment group took developers of the project to court last month for violating laws.
$66b invested in Greater Mekong Sub-region: ADB official
Upped by $2 billion compared to what ministers of the six GMS countries agreed to in the action plan late last year.
Sustainable tourism development in heritage sites talked in Hanoi
Benefits, but the overdevelopment of tourism in several coastal provinces results in numerous negative impacts
HCMC secures $5 billion from Canadian fund for Mekong Delta rail link
The 200kph train journey would cut travel time from HCMC to Can Tho to just 40 minutes.
How empowering women leads to innovative agricultural practices
What is the actual impact of an intensified development focus on rural women?
Payments to protect forest carbon must increase to defend against rubber plantations
Efforts to protect tropical forests in Southeast Asia for the carbon they store may fail because protection payments are too low
Mekong through photographers’ eyes: ‘disaster after disaster’
Photographers Gareth Bright and Luke Forsyth travelled from the sea to the source of the Mekong and found people struggling to adapt to rapid changes
Mekong nations agree to share information
Guidelines to be formulated this week on how to share information and technology to jointly manage the transnational river.
Once thriving floating market gasping for air in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Plans are in place to revive Nga Bay Market, but critics say it’s too late to save the floundering vendors from drowning in a river of bureaucracy.