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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 ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ວຽງຈັນ (ວຽງຈັນທາມສ໌/ANN) – ເຈົ້າໜ້າທີ່ກົມພັດທະນາການທ່ອງທ່ຽວ ກະຊວງຖະແຫຼງຂ່າວ, ວັດທະນະທຳ ແລະ ທ່ອງທ່ຽວ ປະຊຸມກັບສະມາຊິກສະມາຄົມຫັດຖະກຳລາວ ທີ່ນະຄອນວຽງຈັນວານນີ້ ເພື່ອຫາລືການເຊື່ອມໂຍງລະຫວ່າງຜະລິດຕະພັນຫັດຖະກຳ ກັບການທ່ອງທ່ຽວ ແລະ ການບໍລິການແບບຍືນຍົງ ເພື່ອຈຸດປະສົງໃນການສົ່ງເສີມສອງຂະແໜງດັ່ງກ່າວ.ທ່ານ ທະວີເພັດ ອຸລາ ຮອງຫົວໜ້າກົມພັດທະນາການທ່ອງທ່ຽວ ກ່າວໃນກອງປະຊຸມວ່າ ນີ້ແມ່ນກອງປະຊຸມຄັ້ງທຳອິດລະຫວ່າງກົມ ແລະ ສະມາຄົມ.ອ່ານຕໍ່ ...

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 ...

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 ...