The Mekong Business Initiative will launch a new platform next month aimed at developing startups in the tourism sector throughout the CLMV region, which includes Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, a program organiser said on January 31. MBI, a program launched by the Asian Development ...

Authorities urged residents living along the Mekong River in Stung Treng, Kratie and Kampong Cham provinces to be vigilant as water levels rise perilously close to meriting an emergency declaration. On Sunday, water levels in Stung Treng province were just 20cm shy of an emergency declaration ...

The recent media report on the Mekong River which contained false accusations against China ignores the joint efforts made by China, Thailand and other relevant parties to promote cooperation on Mekong water resources for the benefit of the people in the region. These accusations mislead ...

A new study by the World Health Organization has found 3 million deaths a year are linked to exposure to outdoor air pollution, with nearly 90 percent of those deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries like Cambodia. The WHO said Southeast Asia bears one of ...

ຈຸດປະສົງຂອງງານປະກວດຄັ້ງນີ້ ແມ່ນເພື່ອຊຸກຍູ້ສົ່ງເສີມບັນດາຜູ້ຊ່ຽວຊານ, ນັກຄົ້ນຄວ້າ, ນັກສຶກສາ ໂດຍສະເພາະເພດຍິງ ແລະ ຄົນຊົນເຜົ່າ ເພື່ອສະແດງໃຫ້ເຫັນຄຸນຄ່າຄວາມສຳຄັນຂອງຂໍ້ມູນ ໂດຍຜ່ານການເລົ່າເລື່ອງທີ່ເປັນຮູບພາບ ທັງເປັນການປະກອບສ່ວນເຂົ້າໃນຊຸມຊົນຂໍ້ມູນເປີດດ້ວຍການເພີ່ມຄວາມສາມາດໃນການເຂົ້າເຖິງຂໍ້ມູນຂ່າວສານດ້ານບໍລິການສາທາລະນະ. ໃນຊ່ວງການລະບາດຂອງພະຍາດໂຄວິດ-19, Open Development Mekong (ODM) ຮ່ວມກັບ SPIDER Center  ເຊີນຊວນໃຫ້ບັນດາທ່ານປະກອບສ່ວນ ເຂົ້າຮ່ວມນຳໃຊ້ຄວາມຮູ້ ແລະ ສ້າງສັນຂໍ້ມູນ ເພື່ອສ້າງເປັນບົດເລື່ອງ ພາຍໃຕ້ຫົວຂໍ້ “ຜົນກະທົບຂອງ COVID-19” ໂດຍນຳໃຊ້ຂໍ້ມູນຕາມແພັດຟອມ ODI ຫຼື ແຫຼ່ງອື່ນໆທີ່ກ່ຽວຂ້ອງ.The Open Development Initiative (ODI) ພາຍໃຕ້  the East-West Management Institute (EWMI) ຂໍເຊີນບັນດາທ່ານ ສົ່ງຜົນງານ ການເລົ່າບົດເລື່ອງໂດຍນຳໃຊ້ຂໍ້ມູນປະກອບ. ໂດຍສະເພາະ ຜູ້ເຂົ້າຮ່ວມທີ່ມາຈາກທຸກປະເທດ ລຸ່ມແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງເຊັ່ນ: ...

Introduction The Lower Mekong Countries (LMCs) are extremely vulnerable to disasters. Vietnam and Thailand were in the top ten countries in the world most affected by weather-related events over the period 1999-2018.1 In 2018 Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam all ranked in the top 50 ...

The U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur, in partnership with TechSoup, will host the YSEALI Regional Workshop on Good Governance and Civil Society in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 19 – 23, 2020. The workshop aims to build capacity among 100 youth leaders across ASEAN and Timor Leste who are currently ...

Mushroom Television Co is taking its hit SME programme “Young Self-Made Millionaire”, which has been airing on MCOT for five years, to Laos next month, and to Vietnam and Cambodia in March. “We expect the expansion will help our growth to reach 10 per cent ...

The Mekong River, the longest waterway in Southeast Asia, is often called the world’s most productive river because it holds a greater abundance of freshwater fish than any other river basin on the planet. From an ecological standpoint, there is one stretch of the river, in ...

There was a time when scores of some of the world’s largest freshwater fishes swam up the Mekong River, past the Laotian town of Luang Prabang, now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Giant catfish the size of grizzly bears, seven-striped barb, giant pangasius, and other huge fish once made ...

Lancang-Mekong River countries have vowed strengthened cooperation on water resources management as they forge ahead to cope with common challenges in the basin, including drought caused by climate change. Heads of water resources authorities of the six countries made the remarks as they gathered online on ...

China and ASEAN countries will set up a regional anti-corruption legal framework to facilitate the return of corrupt Chinese officials who are still at large in ASEAN countries and confiscate their ill-gotten assets, a senior anti-graft official said. China is in advanced negotiations with some ASEAN ...

China and Thailand are mulling the possibility of setting up a joint military production facility in the latest sign of an expanding defense relationship between Beijing and one of the United States’ two treaty allies in Southeast Asia. Sino-Thai military cooperation has deepened of late ...

While welcoming China’s decision to share hydrological data with Mekong nations, experts said the next step would be to expand the information shared and to make this data accessible to citizens and communities who most need it. The Mekong River Commission (MRC) and China’s Water Resource ...

President Trần Đại Quang pledged that Việt Nam will encourage its business community to invest in Myanmar, especially in agriculture, fish farming, mining and tourism. At a meeting with visiting Myanmar Minister of Home Affairs Kyaw Swe in Hà Nội yesterday, the President said that Việt ...

Electricity-starved Cambodia will not develop new hydropower dams on the Mekong River for the next 10 years, a senior energy official said on Wednesday, as it reviews its policy to seek energy from coal, natural gas and solar. The decision means that neighboring Laos, which has ...

As China shows signs of recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, speculations abound about what a post-COVID-19 future will look like. Amid the cacophony of voices, consensus is gathering that global power balances will shift. What this shift might entail is fiercely debated. Some see China ...

China is blighting millions of Southeast Asians by choking the Mekong River. It can be sued before the United Nations. Reparations and sanctions can be extracted under international pacts. Beijing communist rulers’ global excesses amidst COVID-19 pandemic will isolate China. Eleven dams on China’s side of the Mekong have dried up farms downstream in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. ...

By this time of year, the Mekong River should have been rising steadily with the monsoon rains, bringing fishermen a bounty of fat fish. Instead, the river water in Thailand has fallen further than anyone can remember and the only fish are tiny. Scientists and people living ...