Category: Opinion
Collection of opinions relevant to the Mekong environment published in media outlets across the globe.
Is digging Kra Canal still a pipe dream?
The time — one-and-a-half days — and shipping costs saved are still insufficient to justify the project.
Vietnam needs to choose the path less traveled
The cost so far have been especially high environmentally, as has seen Vietnam’s worsening air, water and soil pollution, not to mention destruction of forests and other natural resources.
No New Thinking in Laos?
The government’s appalling responses to the numerous dam collapses over recent years while giving the all clear to other dams illustrates it has learned nothing.
Thailand’s bungling govt is losing the PM2.5 war
Though it is illegal to do so, from November to April each year, sugarcane fields across the country are set alight spreading haze throughout the country.
Time to revisit the Thai Canal project
Last week both government and opposition MPs backed a proposal to set up a House committee to study the so-called Thai Canal project, previously known as the Kra Canal project.
Dams lead to extinction
Chansaveng Buongnong, chief of Laos’ Department of Energy Policy and Planning, recently assured the media that the latest Luang Prabang project will not affect the river’s ecosystem.
Paths out of Poverty in Myanmar: Haircuts, Textiles, Rice and More
This jointly funded program, which is called Building Resilient Livelihoods in Kayin State, is paving paths out of poverty and dependence.
Ups and downs of Laos’ road to graduate from LDC status
Laos’ economic development depends alot on mining and hydropower, which breeds new risk for the country’s ambitions to graduate from the United Nation’s Least Developed Country status in 2024.
A Myanmar economist’s view on the Belt and Road and Myanmar’s experience with China
“In other words, to have mutually beneficial results from BRI engagement, China and Myanmar must cooperate as equal partners with respect for each other.”