“Laos is going to build all planned dams, including these two dams on the Mekong River,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Right now, our ministers are meeting and discussing our plans to sell all our power to Thailand.”
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IEAT pushing to carbon neutral industrial zones
Nashida Kazuya, Japanese ambassador to Thailand, said Japan is the largest investor in Thailand so it should play a major role in helping the country carry out a carbon neutrality campaign in the industrial sector.
The $168 million Mekong-Australia Partnership launched
According to a statement from the Australian Embassy in Cambodia said the MAP provides support to the five countries in the Mekong subregion to strengthen economic recovery, environmental resilience, and human capacity, with a particular focus on bridging the development gap between Asean member states.
Laos pledges to diversify energy sources to minimise imports
From 2021-2025, we plan to produce 1,807MW of electricity, with hydropower accounting for 57 percent of the total, coal-fired power 19 percent and solar power 24 percent.
Growing Chinese investments in Myanmar post-coup
The junta has reorganised the working committees of several developmental projects that are crucial under the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor.
Dams and droughts, data and diplomacy in the Mekong
It does not seek to resolve the continuing tensions over how large dam building is planned and decided in the Mekong River and its tributaries, in particular without addressing the concerns of thousands of local communities who depend on the Mekong River for sustenance and livelihoods.
Hun Sen: Filled-in lakes not cause of flooding in capital
“Floods in Phnom Penh have nothing to do with the Prek Tnaot River. Even if nothing is done to it, the river still floods [during rainy season]. But I do not encourage anyone to block the waterway or the flow of water. Do not continue to criticise flooding in Phnom Penh during the rainy season and place the blame on the filling-in of lakes.”
Vietnam seeks investment in economic zone near Kingdom
The Long An Border Gate Economic Zone on the Cambodia-Vietnam border has an area of over 13,080ha and hopes to serve as a bridge between Ho Chi Minh City and 12 provinces in the delta, and a trade hub linking the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Water, gender, and poverty collide in Cambodian watershed
In 2019, the Stockholm Environment Institute, The Asia Foundation, and Winrock International conducted a study of how water access is connected to poverty and gender in the Stung Chinit Watershed in rural Kampong Thom Province, using the Multidimensional Poverty Analysis framework (MDPA) of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
Mekong Delta disappears under its residents’ feet
It took thousands of years for the Mekong Delta to come into existence. It might take humans just a few more decades to undo it.