Nearly the entire Mekong Delta in Vietnam — an area that helps feed about 200 million people — will sink underwater by the year 2100 at current rates, a new study predicts.
Category: Analysis
Cambodia can achieve SDGs, but deep fiscal reform needed: ADB report
Laos and Myanmar too will have to make trade-offs, while Thailand and Vietnam should be able to meet the social protection agenda within the limit of their current fiscal deficit.
Will China let Belt and Road die quietly?
In all likelihood, we will see a significant decline in the hype Chinese official media outlets devote to BRI.
Vietnam’s clampdown on academic freedom
Under new rule, Vietnam is discrediting critics of the one-party state. Alexandre Sisophon reports from Hanoi on the academics and students resisting this campaign.
Could Bangkok’s toxic haze take it off the tourist map?
Tourists are being advised to wear respiratory masks in Bangkok after a toxic haze, which descended on the city in December, shows no signs of moving.
Orchid defenders face mammoth task
With few nurseries, Myanmar’s wild (illegally picked) orchids find their way to China, Vietnam and Thailand which are now in an orchid frenzy as their middle and upper classes are growing.
The great sand heist
The mining of sand from Myanmar’s rivers could be creating an environmental crisis with potentially serious consequences for the 34 million people who live in the Ayeyarwady River basin.
“Our land is collapsing around us’: Ayeyarwady at risk from rampant sand mining
Irresponsible sand mining is destroying the livelihoods of farmers and fishers and placing environmental stress on the nation’s rice bowl.