Administration won’t use force against ethnic Karen villagers living in Phetchaburi’s Kaeng Krachan National Park as past governments did.
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Cambodian Land Dispute Victims Hold Mass Protest Demanding Release of Activists
Land dispute victims from nearly half of Cambodia’s two dozen provinces gathered in their respective communities Tuesday as part of a solidarity protest demanding that the government drop charges against six activists arrested over the past three years after working on their behalf.
Beijing Gives Thailand Conflicting Outflow Data on Mekong River Dams
“This discrepancy between outflow estimates may be due to the use of different methods to calculate discharges,” the MRC statement said.
Oil companies under scrutiny in Myanmar as pro-democracy protests turn deadly
International upstream players Total, Unocal (Chevron) and Australia’s Woodside — the last of which has an ongoing exploration campaign offshore Myanmar — are among companies that have signed up to the ‘Statement by Concerned Businesses Operating in Myanmar’ co-ordinated by the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB).
Military coup, economic sanctions hike threats to Myanmar’s forests
Myanmar’s forests are one of its most valuable natural resources, but have been plundered by logging which helped fund the former military regime that ran the country for 49 years, before an unsteady transition to democracy began in 2011.
New dam to address Northeast drought
The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) is building the Lam Nam Chi reservoir in Ban Khwao district of this northeastern province to help alleviate the chronic water shortage in the kingdom’s northeastern region.
Damming Rivers Is Terrible for Human Rights, Ecosystems and Food Security
The Pak Mun Dam did not deliver the peaking energy service it was designed for, and it physically blocked a critical migration route for a range of fish species that migrated annually to breeding grounds upstream in the Mekong’s Mun River Basin.
Mekong River levels ‘slightly’ rise amid conflicting regional data
The inter-governmental Mekong River Commission (MRC) said on Monday that levels on the vital waterway have “slightly” increased and it would look into why its outflow data from Chinese dams upstream differed from data later given by Beijing.
Human Rights Abuses in Laos Are Rampant – International Businesses Should Take Action
In 2019, Lao environmentalist Houayheuang “Muay” Xayabouly was sentenced to five years in prison for speaking up for flood victims and criticizing the government’s response to the crisis on Facebook. In the same year, seven activists were detained for planning a pro-democracy rally in Vientiane.