ccording to Forest News, Cambodia loses about 208,000 hectares of forest every year from logging. Now some local residents are fighting back and asking for help.
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Reducing risk, reaping resilience in Cambodia
Over one thousand years after the decline of Angkor we cannot know for sure what drove its decline. But with early warning and action at the local level, Cambodia will build a climate-resilient sustainable future.
Long An inaugurates VND1 trillion solar power plant
It is one of the first solar power plants inaugurated in the Mekong Delta province and integrated into the national electricity grid.
It’s not just melting glaciers that endanger the Mekong and its region
For 9 mouths of the Mekong would flow into the South China Sea, now it’s 7 and “in the future maybe we have four or five”.
Working for a plastic-free future
Zero Plastic mainly distributes plastic alternatives from local and foreign sources rather than making its own products. Its main clients are hotels and restaurants, of which beach hotels seem to be the most interested.
Vietnamese fishing communities seek justice in lawsuit against Taiwanese corporation
The movement for accountability in the Formosa case has been subject to what some rights groups call a crackdown on freedom of expression by the state.
Pollution in Thailand at ‘stable’ level for past five years
Pollution Control Department (PCD) executive Pansak Thiramongkol said the key issues of concern are fine airborne particulate matter 10 microns or less in diameter and the depleting ozone layer.
China winning new Cold War on the Mekong
Beijing has leveraged its Belt and Road Initiative to gain the upper hand on the Mekong River while the US and Japan’s competing initiatives wash away
Kokko Chinatown project sparks concerns in Tak
Mae Sot’s population of only 70,000 to 80,000 residents will be easily eclipsed by some 400,000 Chinese nationals expected to migrate to Kokko Chinatown in Myanmar,