Apr 30 2008 in communications, Governance, mekong ecoregion by Paul
(30 April 2008) ADB - Some 3,000 leaders of government, the private sector, academe and civil society from around the world will gather in Madrid this week for the 41st Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank - the leading development organization in the world’s most dynamic and fastest growing region. Read article… Asian Development [...]
Tags: adb annual meeting, madrid, professional development
Apr 30 2008 in Burma | Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam by Paul
Hemscott - London,UK The grouping of Mekong nations would be similar to the oil cartel OPEC, and would be called the Organisation of Rice Exporting Countries (OREC). … Read article… Visit Hemscott website
Tags: orec, Organisation of Rice Exporting Countries, rice cartel
Apr 30 2008 in Thailand by Paul
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA He had just spent a week in the remote Mekong River in northern Cambodia, searching for the ray—which could be the world’s largest freshwater fish—to no avail. … Read article… National Geographic News website
Tags: giant freshwater stingray, megafishes, mekong, river
Apr 29 2008 in Vietnam by Paul
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) said it would begin to release 1.2 million tons of rice from its stockpiles to supply Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong Delta … Read article… Thanh Nien Daily website
Tags: food security, mekong delta, rice, rice prices
Apr 29 2008 in communications, Governance, mekong delta, The Mekong River, tributary of the mekong, Vietnam by Paul
Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam Mekong river delta provinces have just harvested this year winter-spring crop with a total estimated output of 9.4 million tonnes, up 300000 tonnes compared … Read article… Visit Nhan Dan website in Vietnamese
Tags: harvest, mekong delta, rice, rice production
Apr 29 2008 in Vietnam by Paul
AFP - In other southern towns, including the Mekong delta hub of Can Tho, prices also went up fast, while some distributors stockpiling rice and turning away … Read article…
Tags: rice, rice prices, speculation
Apr 29 2008 in Vietnam by Paul
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam To entice more visitors, tourism in the Mekong Delta region needs a revamp to end the practice of multiple operators offering “same same” services and … Read article… Thanh Nien Daily website
Tags: mekong delta, tourism
Apr 27 2008 in communications, deforestation, flora and fauna, Governance, habitat, mekong ecoregion by Paul
HANOI (AFP) — Asia’s rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, energy and commodity prices, forest experts warn. The loss of these biodiversity hot spots, much of it driven by the illegal timber trade and the growth of oil palm, biofuel and [...]
Tags: asia, crisis, deforestation, global warming
Apr 27 2008 in food, mekong delta, The Mekong River, tributary of the mekong, Vietnam by Paul
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam Despite high rice export prices and the Mekong delta experiencing a bumper winter-spring rice crop with more than 9.3 million tonnes of … Read article… VietNamNet Bridge News website
Tags: exports, food security, mekong delta, rice, Vietnam
Apr 27 2008 in food, mekong ecoregion by Paul
By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Apr 25 (IPS) - The headlines screaming about a global food shortage have not aroused surprise in a leading non-governmental organisation (NGO) working with farming communities across Asia. To its members, warnings of hunger on a biblical scale are hardly news. … Read article… The Inter Press Service News Agency website
Tags: hunger, rice, rice farmer, world hunger