Construction of the My Thuan – Can Tho Expressway, which will improve HCMC’s connectivity with the Mekong Delta, will begin on Monday.
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Years in the making, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta policy takes the long view
An early indicator of the Vietnamese regime’s ability to adapt its policies to more challenging conditions will be how it chooses to defend the delta seacoast.
Transboundary haze: The hidden price of cheap maize
Industrial maize farming in Myanmar’s Shan State is devastating families and landscapes as well as fuelling ever-increasing levels of transboundary haze, generating urgent calls for serious changes to animal feed supply chains.
Buried in debt: Shan contract farmers’ future rocked by insecurity
Apart from being a source of transboundary haze, poorly regulated contract farming is trapping the small farmers of Myanmar’s Shan State in a cycle of overwhelming debt, land dispossession and environmental degradation.
Beyond industrial maize farming’s dead-end in Myanmar
Diversified farming systems and agrobiodiversity are essential in defending food security and coping with climate crisis. But both are being undermined in Myanmar’s Shan State, where the industrial maize industry is making local farmers more vulnerable to climate change.
The visual preservation of an early anti-dam struggle
Four photographers and local community members captured Thailand’s anti-Rasi Salai dam movement in 1990s, showing protests and activities of resistance and ways of life that no longer exist.
Spotlight on the right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia
Citizens across Southeast Asia recognize the right to a healthy environment in their countries’ laws, policies, and juridical system.
Sustaining Vietnam’s Robusta through uncertainty
A discreet movement of smallholders within Vietnam’s massive coffee industry are leading efforts to ensure the industry’s survival amidst extensive climate change and market threats.
Cambodia’s giant life-giving Tonle Sap lake in peril
More than a million people live on or around the lake, the world’s largest inland fishery, but water levels have plummeted and fish stocks dwindled because of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong.
More dams would devastate the ailing Mekong River
New dams are in the works. Laos, a landlocked and impoverished nation, is planning to construct a new 684-megawatt dam at the cost of $2 billion with Chinese backing. Most of the electricity generated would be exported to neighboring Thailand, which already has a surplus of electricity to meet domestic demand.