Four months after its launch, the Chinese-backed Maritime Silk Road Research Center releases a 190-page book, “The Belt and Road Initiative and Its Implications for Cambodia’s Development.”
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Land subsidence a big threat to Mekong Delta
Land subsidence is worsening in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta, and experts told a recent seminar in Can Tho city that over-exploitation of groundwater is one of the factors causing it.
Vietnam activist ‘beaten’ in jail
A Vietnamese environmental activist was beaten in prison for refusing to confess his crimes, his wife said Friday in the one-party communist state notorious for jailing critics.
‘Our river was like a God’: How dams and Chinese might imperil the Mekong
With water flows shifting as new dams start their turbines, fishers, farmers and local ecosystems are suffering.
Chinese Support Gives Laos an Edge Over Powerful Neighbor Vietnam
“But Vietnam, although they have talked quietly to the Lao, it has not chosen the nuclear option to carry on very publicly and condemn Laos.”