The US’s experience in environmental management and air quality control in Vietnam were touched upon at a seminar in Hanoi on January 25.
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Coastal communities to adapt for climate change
Funded by the Global Environmental Facility’s Least-Developed Country Fund (LDCF), the project will help coastal fishing communities and protected areas in Cambodia’s main four coastal provinces.
Lao leadership shuffle will see precarious development
The Lao government has adhered to an agenda that gambles the country’s international reputation and is also starkly out of step with its stated goals around sustainable development
Thailand to put world’s largest floating solar farm into use this June
The 45 MW floating solar farm is designed to be a hybrid system, working in tandem with 36MW of hydropower generation to increase optimisation capacity.
26 families along Sangke River given land concessions with mixed response
“We have prepared 8.5-by-8 metre plots of land for the families. The concrete foundations of the houses have been designed for two floors, meaning if they have more family members, they can build a second floor.”
Chinese Group Proposes Major Garment Manufacturing Hub in Northern Myanmar
A Chinese textile group has submitted a proposal to implement an international textile manufacturing cluster project in a major town in Sagaing Region, an economic hub for Upper Myanmar, at an expected cost of more than US$370 million (493.49 billion kyats).
The World’s Rarest Turtle Has a Shot at Escaping Extinction
Conservationists confirmed that a Swinhoe’s softshell turtle found in Vietnam is female, reigniting hope for saving the species.
Mekong area looks to neighbor as it fights poverty
Bernard Kervyn, regional director of the nonprofit organization Mekong Plus in Vietnam and Cambodia, said he “would be very happy” to work with Chinese organizations to jointly promote poverty alleviation in the Mekong River basin countries.
In Laos, Reform Hopes Peter Out Into Business as Usual
The Lao communist party’s newly selected General Secretary Thongloun Sisoulith once promised change. Now he sits atop a closed and sclerotic system.
China is building border walls with Vietnam and Myanmar to keep people out, but also in
Border closures have become a key feature of the COVID-19 era, but China’s decision to reinforce border walls with its South-East Asian neighbours has stirred up fresh controversy.