A new friendship bridge will be built between Burma and Laos across the Mekong River. (Photo: LZAC) Burma and Laos have signed a deal to build a friendship bridge spanning the Mekong River amongst a raft of measures to deepen [...]
Cambodian villagers grapple with the environmental cost of sand mining. RFA A dredger pumps sand from the Mekong River in Tboung Khmum district in central Cambodia's Kampong Cham, March 15, 2012. Villagers who live along the banks of the Mekong [...]
According to an environmental green group, the government of Thailand is defying a regional decision-making process by proceeding with the implementation of a controversial USD3.8 billion hydropower dam project in northern Laos. At a December meeting of the Mekong [...]
WASHINGTON: Plans to build hydropower plants along Southeast Asia's longest river could have devastating effects on the world's largest inland fishery and should be reconsidered, scientists said on Monday. Plenty of attention has focused on plans to develop dams [...]
The Thai government is defying a regio-nal decision-making process by proceeding with the implementation of a controversial US$3.8 billion hydropower dam project in northern Laos, an environmental group said yesterday. “Recent oversight hearings by the Thai Senate and the National [...]
February 21, 2012 12:00 PM NAKHON PHANOM, Feb 21 (Bernama) -- An early drought this year is affecting boats and ships sailing across the Thai-Laos border through the Mekong River, carrying either goods or travellers. People in Thailand's northeastern Nakhon [...]
Photo by: Mai Vireak Men look over a catch at a fish market near Kilometre 9 in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district on Tuesday. Sieam Bunthy Friday, 09 December 2011A new government plan has set a goal for an annual 1.2 [...]
Southeast Asia floods take 1,000 lives | Democratic Voice of Burma.
HA NOI — Enhanced environmental protection tools need to be applied in an effort to ease the nation's chronic pollution problem, according to experts at the workshop held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Ha Noi on [...]
Photo by: Khouth Sophak Chakrya MONDAY, 07 NOVEMBER 2011 12:02KHOUTH SOPHAK CHAKRYA A girl stands in floodwaters in a neighbourhood at Boeung Kak lake yesterday. Several hundred Boeung Kak lake villagers saw their homes flooded in knee-deep water over the [...]