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ecns
March 30, 2018
Over 2,000 senior officials and entrepreneurs from the six countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and GMS development partners gathered here Friday to discuss business outlook, new economic drivers and a private sector development action plan. The six-member GMS, which haveÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 30, 2018
Nakaisone Souk and women and men in her community earn their living by fishing and farming; they depend on the water resources of the Mekong River Basin for their survival. Nakaisone is from Don Sahong Island in southern Lao. Photo by Savann Oeurm/OxfamÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 30, 2018
The Mekong has long cast a mystical spell over adventurers, wildlife experts, and scientists enchanted by its spectacular rapids and waterfalls, along with its endangered dolphins, giant manta rays, and Siamese crocodiles. The river's biodiversity is second only to the Amazon. In recent years, however, thisÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 29, 2018
The Mekong is the longest river in South-East Asia. Over 70 million people, living in six different countries, depend on this river for their livelihoods. But development is putting the ecosystem here under threat. Sand mines and hydro-electric power stations are changing the water quality, blocking fishÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
March 29, 2018
PHNOM PENH -- Japan's ambitious new foreign policy strategy aimed at "bridging" the Southeast Asian mainland and Indo-Pacific regions through aid, trade and infrastructure links has drawn a wary welcome from Mekong area countries concerned about growing rivalry between the major donor countries,Ãâà...
The Interpreter
March 28, 2018
The great biodiversity and precious resources of the Mekong are increasingly endangered by the rush to dam one of the world's great rivers. A total of 11 mainstream dams and 120 dams on tributaries are planned, which scientists warn will imperil the already fragile river system. Recent studies call for aÃâà...
New York Times
March 28, 2018
The Mekong River's lower basin is vast, encompassing parts of Myanmar and Thailand, virtually all of Laos and Cambodia and parts of southern Vietnam, where, after a 3,000-mile journey across five national borders, the mother of rivers divaricates into a complex delta network and drains into the SouthÃâà...
Caixin Global
March 23, 2018
But, Yunnan province is grappling with a hydropower supply glut due to decades of dam development along the Mekong. Fourteen dams have been built along the section of the Mekong River flowing through Yunnan since the first Manwan Hydropower Station was built in 1995, decimating habitats, severalÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 20, 2018
The Mekong River, one of the world's longest and resource-rich rivers, deserves international attention and recognition as a frontier with governments and developers — who see the river an industrial production tool — on one side and the people who live along its vast waterways and backed byÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 17, 2018
Thailand's national electricity authority has decided to delay a decision to purchase power to be produced by a controversial Mekong River hydropower dam. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) said in mid-February that it has delayed a decision to purchase power produced by the PakÃâà...
Houston Chronicle
March 17, 2018
Barefoot, we climbed the 400 stone steps to the highest white marble stupa encasing the Buddha's relics. Bold statues of the mythical three-headed elephant Erawan guard the shrine, and from this highest point, I could see miles across the flat squares of green to the shimmering complexity of the Mekong,Ãâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 15, 2018
Brian Eyler, with the Stimson Institute in Washington, DC, said the move shows a “window of opportunity” is opening for Mekong countries to switch to renewable energy. “To drive this process forward, the region needs local sustainability leaders to work within mainland Southeast Asia and ASEAN,” he saidÃâà...
thethirdpole.net
March 15, 2018
For the group of Tibetan youngsters, it was a rare opportunity to see what life is like on the lower reaches of the river known as the Lancang in China, and the Mekong elsewhere. Hailing from Qinghai Province, near the source of the Lancang, the group was part of a youth exchange in the Lao capital ofÃâà...
National Geographic
March 15, 2018
One afternoon last year, Ha Thi Be, 67, was sitting with her son in her tiny coffee shop in the town of Hong Ngu, looking out on the lazy Tien River, the main branch of the Mekong in Vietnam. Suddenly, the ground beneath them gave way. The river bank was crumbling into the water. “We shouted out loudÃâà...
VietNamNet Bridge
March 14, 2018
The Greater Mekong, including Vietnam, is expected to have a colossal US$66 billion poured in to strengthen regional economic co-operation in the next ... The money was upped by $2 billion compared to what ministers of the six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries - Myanmar, Laos, Viet Nam,Ãâà...
Xinhua
March 14, 2018
PHNOM PENH, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Wednesday inaugurated its first own-built concrete bridge across a Mekong River tributary in southeastern Kampong Cham province. Speaking during the inauguration ceremony, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said the Koh Pen Bridge, which isÃâà...
The Nation
March 14, 2018
Residents of a village in Chiang Rai's Chiang Khong district has turned the annual drought into an opportunity by harvesting Mekong weed to sell, earning some Bt500 to Bt2,000 a day, they said. Residents of Ban Haad Krai village in Tambon Vieng said they started harvesting the weed early this monthÃâà...
Bangkok Post
March 13, 2018
CHIANG RAI: Small freight vessels and passenger cruises have resumed services after the water level rose above two metres on a stretch of the Mekong River in Chiang Saen district yesterday, according to the provincial office. Cargo and cruise vessels plying the international river were mostly groundedÃâà...
Science Daily
March 5, 2018
Mekong River is a global hot spot for hydropower development. The economy in the region is growing rapidly and hydropower is broadly seen as a viable source for satisfying growing energy demands. However, the extensiveness of hydropower development has raised concerns on ecological and socialÃâà...
Bangkok Post
March 5, 2018
Local civic groups will seek help from Friends of Nature (FON), a renowned conservation group in China, for its campaign against dam projects on the Mekong River. Rak Chiang Khong, local conservation group based in Chiang Rai province is contacting the Beijing-based FON to seek advice on ChineseÃâà...
The Quint
March 5, 2018
From sea to source, the Mekong River stretches nearly 5,000 km through six countries. More than 60 million people depend on its waters for survival, and it is second only to the Amazon in its biodiversity. Photographers Gareth Bright and Luke Forsyth spent eighteen months travelling from the Mekong deltaÃâà...
Green Car Congress (blog)
March 5, 2018
Hydropower is commonly considered as a clean energy source to fuel Southeast Asian economic growth. However, a recent study published in Environmental Research Letters finds that hydropower in the Mekong River Basin, largest river in Southeast Asia, might not always be climate friendly. The medianÃâà...
VietNamNet Bridge
March 3, 2018
The information was announced at a conference to introduce the programme held by the Ho Chi Minh City Startup and Innovation Support Centre and the Mekong Business Initiative in HCM City on March 2. MIST includes the two sub-programmes – “Startup Acceleration” and “Market Access”. The “StartupÃâà...
The Nation
March 2, 2018
Worasart Apaipong, director-general of Thailand's Water Resources Department, said yesterday that sharing information would help minimise negative impacts when upstream nations needed to release water from their dams on the Mekong River. Originating in China, the river stretches more than 4,350Ãâà...
Bangkok Post
February 23, 2018
Member countries of the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) are working to develop a master development plan for 2019-23 to strengthen sustainable economic growth and enact better economic management. Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said theÃâà...
AZCentral.com
February 16, 2018
I recently spent a week cruising the Mekong River aboard the Scenic Spirit, a 2-year-old, 68-passenger ship owned by Scenic Cruises, an Australian high-end line with a growing presence in North America. Most of our passengers were from Australia and England; I was one of five Americans on the trip.
Myanmar Times
December 31, 1999
The Nam Ou River, a longest tributary of the Mekong in Laos, is quiet during the early morning. Community activities, such as fishing and collection of river weeds, are merely a memory. A cascade of dams under construction along the Nam Ou block this important tributary. The once mighty river is beingÃâà...
Science Daily
December 31, 1999
The Mekong River, one of the world's largest, traverses six Southeast Asian countries and supports the livelihoods of millions of people. New efforts to provide hydroelectric power to a growing and modernizing population include more than eight proposed main-stem dams and 60 or more existing tributaryÃâà...
Tangerine
December 31, 1999
It's served up locally at Pho Mekong House of Noodles, a Vietnamese restaurant located in a sleepy stretch of East Utica between downtown and the thick of Bleecker Street. Kelly Ashe, a graduate student in the occupational therapy weekend program frequents Pho Mekong. She is a Utica native. “Pho isÃâà...
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