(English) Report slams push for rubber

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Tackling Hydropower Myths on the Mekong: “Run-of-River” Does Not Mean Sustainable
A few weeks ago, the 3rd Mekong River Commission Summit took place in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The Summit is held every four years, bringing together the leaders of the Lower Mekong member countries: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam, together with representatives of China and Myanmar ...
International Rivers Reporter
The Fight with China Over the Mekong River Basin
Countries in the Mekong River Basin, notably those located in the lower part of the river – Asia’s seventh longest – are in need of a collective strategy to secure their future, given China’s control of the upstream part and ongoing changes in global geopolitics. ...
Mekong Legal Advocacy Institute Recruitment

Mekong Legal Advocacy Institute is currently seeking junior lawyers and legal advocates, youth leaders and NGO workers from all six Mekong countries – Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Vietnam. Those working on earth rights issues such as environmental or human rights are invited to ...
New Report: WWF Forest Pulse Report 2018

“Pulse of the Forest” showcases both the threats and the potential for the forests of the Greater Mekong region, which consists of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The region is one of 11 global deforestation fronts – areas that in the coming decades ...
NGOs: Rail link better, not tunnel
Two active NGOs in Penang want the Penang Undersea Tunnel project scrapped because it will be redundant with two bridges connecting the island to the mainland. []Yan Lee was referring to the Kunming-Singapore railway network, which will crawl northwards from the island republic and connects with ...
The Star Online Reporter
China's debt-trap diplomacy: Inquirer columnist
This is not the kind of invasion that Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio warns about, but a subtle and insidious mode of conquest that could undermine Philippine sovereignty in the long term. In fact, with the way Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano is defending ...
Alito L. Malinao
(English) ASEAN, Japan to fight cybercrime, terrorism
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Mekong countries attend friendship border exchange program in Vietnam
Delegations from all six members of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), including Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam participated in the third friendship border exchange program in Vietnam’s Hanoi capital on Saturday evening. During the exchange program, with the presence of Vietnam’s top legislator ...
World View: China’s Mekong River Dams Criticized for Affecting Other Countries’ Livelihoods
Multiple dams and hydropower projects being built in China on the Lancang Jiang River, which becomes the Mekong River when it leaves China, are having a significant effect on the livelihoods and living conditions of millions of people along the Mekong River in downstream countries. ...
Major drug smuggling group smashed by Safe Mekong operation
One of the five major drug smuggling groups operating in the region has been crushed and its 26 networks destroyed by the Safe Mekong Joint Operation, Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya announced on Wednesday.Gen Paiboon was briefing the media on progress in the third phase of ...
IUCN And Conservation International Concerned About Mekong Tributaries
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Conservation International, in collaboration with the Cambodia National Mekong Committee, disseminated a report May 10 on the Freshwater Health Index, a tool to assess freshwater ecosystem health in the Sesan, Srepok and Sekong rivers, which are major tributaries ...
Hongsa-Chiangman road to be a boon for Nan
Opportunities in the tourism business in Nan, in the eastern part of the Northern region, will be highlighted once the 114-kilometre Hongsa-Chiangman Road is completed in 2018, making it a short cut to Luang Prabang in Laos. “There will be an opportunity to do business in ...
'Echelon Thailand' set to host Mekong region start-ups
“Echelon Thailand” will bring active start-up communities from around the Mekong region including CLMV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) to connect with one another. The 26-27 November event organised by e27, Asia’s largest tech media platform, is expected to attract the best of the Mekong region’s ...
China plans to deepen EEC focus
CHINA plans to further invest in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) and the country’s agricultural technology as part of its effort to support the Thailand 4.0 policy while furthering its own One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative. China is committed to facilitating a strong partnership ...
MI opens applications to communicating food safety training program

Mekong Institute, supported by the New Zealand Aid Programme, is going to organize Communicating Food Safety: Regional Media Training Program on Food Safety Reporting in CLMV on August 6–10 at Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Full scholarships will be provided to about 20 media/communication professionals of Cambodia, Lao ...
Ethnic groups receive support

Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said there needs to be a complete update of the mechanisms and policies to spur socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited regions. Phuc made his statement at a conference held by the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Affairs and the ...
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Four countries including Myanmar have the highest potential risk of ASF: FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has declared Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam have the highest potential risk of African Swine Fever (ASF) virus due to the spreads of ASF in Yunnan Province in China which borders Myanmar, said Dr. Min Thein Maw, Director of Livestock ...
Cambodia pushing for more benefits from Mekong integration

The government is seeking to develop ways of increasing the benefit felt by Cambodia from economic corridors opened throughout the Greater Mekong Subregion as part of ASEAN integration, an official has said. The economic corridors are intended to spur economic integration in ASEAN and boost infrastructure ...