from Mouth to Source
March 6, 2012 8:04 am

Thousands of people to be relocated to avoid storm Hagibis

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam … dozens of thousands of people will have to relocate if the storm lands in coastal provinces in the south of the central and in the Mekong River delta. … Read more…

Four projects worth US$ 712 million for Vietnam’s development signed

Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam The Mekong Delta Transport Infrastructure Development Project aims to improve access to markets by businesses, farmers and the poor and lower transport … Read more…

Mekong River Commission Remiss - Activists

The campaign to save South-east Asia’s largest waterway from being blocked by a series of massive dams picked up pace this week, with activists accusing a … Read more…

More people die of dengue fever in Vietnam

Xinhua - China Most of the cases have been found in the southern Mekong Delta region, whose weather conditions and local people’s habit of storing water in containers at … Read more…

Luang Prabang - a Laotian jewel where time seems to stand still

Earthtimes - London,UK It is easy to navigate around the streets of the old quarter of this town on the isthmus between Mekong and Nam. The promenades run parallel to the rivers … Read more…

8-Foot Giant Catfish Caught in Cambodia

National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA Captured just before midnight on November 13 by fishers in Cambodia, this Mekong giant catfish is 8 feet long (2.4 meters long) and … Read more…

Act before it goes ‘Up in Smoke’

Nation Multimedia - Bangkok,Thailand Lower Mekong countries, including Thailand, have been told to work together to minimise the effects of global warming and to better cope with the effects of … Read more…

New private port for Golden Triangle

Bangkok Post - Thailand Chiang Rai - A business consortium plans to open a private commercial port on the banks of the Mekong river near the Golden Triangle in Chiang Rai’s Chiang … Read more…

Laos targets hydropower, not democracy

Guardian Unlimited - UK But Bouphavanh said the country has the potential to produce up to 28000 megawatt of hydropower from the Mekong River and the 16 Mekong tributaries within … Read more…

Sports training complex to be built in Mekong Delta

Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam Can Tho city will be home to the Mekong Delta’s national sports training complex in the near future, according to the Vietnam News Agency. … Read more