Do all six countries who share the Mekong River share the same spirit of camaraderie? For answers, look to today’s 2nd Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Summit.
Category: Viet Nam
Pushing GMS food up the value chain
Conditions are ripe GMS to embrace sustainable agriculture and become a source of environmentally friendly produce.
Climate change impacts worsen in Mekong Delta
The environment in Mekong Delta is severely being affected by hasher natural disasters, water pollution and natural resources depletion, said a scholar.
Multiple Mekong forums risk igniting rivalry
Mekong River leaders will be busy this year at meetings of many regional cooperation schemes that observers have said are overlapping.
Mekong River to become new South China Sea for regional disputes?
The Beijing-led Lancang-Mekong Cooperation mechanism was set up to help ease tensions over development projects, but NGOs are unconvinced
Deputy PM urges Mekong Delta development
The sustainable development of the Mekong Delta must go in hand with its long-term ability to recover and adapt to the multi-dimensional impacts of climate change
Organic tourism: but what of the farms, farmers and ecology it relies on?
The ADB is featuring organic food as a new type of tourism in the GMS, while farmers themselves are suffering, as is the ecology many of these tourists want to experience.
Cambodia’s fisheries at risk due to hydropower development on Mekong, MRC warns
Hydropower development will likely deal a serious economic blow to Cambodia, with dire outlooks for its fisheries and rice outputs predicts Mekong River Commission (MRC).
Experts slam Vietnam air pollution
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is repeatedly issuing warnings that Vietnam is among the most air-polluted countries in the Asia-Pacific region say experts
Scientists discover 115 new species in Greater Mekong Region: WWF report
A beautifully colored frog, two mole species found by a team of Vietnamese and Russian scientists, and a fish from Cambodia with a long body and bold stripes…