The 7th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting begins today in Bagan, Myanmar.  Including China, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, LMC is a multilateral cooperation group that oversees transboundary water management in the Mekong. During the meeting, the foreign ministers will evaluate the progress of the Five-Year ...

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 ...

One night two years ago, Lam Thi Le and Nguyen Van Thuong heard loud cracks coming from their neighbours’ riverfront home. The neighbours left, and a day later half of their house collapsed into the broad Tien River as the land beneath it slid away. The ...

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 ...

Between the years of 1990 and 2015, Cambodia saw the region’s highest rate of improvement in the UN’s Human Development Index, a metric that tracks wellbeing, though the country’s overall score remains well below the average for countries in East Asia and the Pacific, a ...

A recently published report by Eyes on Earth, Inc. has pointed the finger at Chinese dams holding back water as having significantly contributed to the major drought impacting the Mekong River in Southeast Asia. The drought’s effects have been felt by millions and hamper efforts to ...

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 ...