May 31 2008 in Laos, Thailand by Paul
Bangkok Post - Thailand MUKDAHAN : The banks of the Mekong river near the second Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge on the Thai side is encountering a conflict of interest between vendors … Read article…
Tags: eviction, highways department, tourism, vendors
May 31 2008 in Vietnam by Paul
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam A Spanish humanitarian organization will put VND5 billion (US$308000) toward supporting needy children in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, … Read article… Thanh Nien Daily website
Tags: ADECOP, Federacion de Asociaciones de Adopcion Internacional, ngo, summer camp
May 31 2008 in Vietnam by Paul
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam HCM CITY — Seafood exports to Russia in the first quarter is estimated at US$60 million, an increase of 30 per cent year-on-year, according to the Viet Nam … Read article… Vietnam News website
Tags: aquaculture, export, mekong delta, seafood
May 30 2008 in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam by Paul
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam The exhibition entitled “Underlying” will be the first time a group of contemporary artists from the Mekong sub-region has united. The 32 artworks exhibited … Read article… VietNamNet Bridge News website
Tags: artists, contemporary art, exhibition
May 30 2008 in Cambodia by Paul
Catholic News Agency - Denver,CO,USA Eight fishermen have found a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes 33 years after the Communist regime in the country threw the statue into the Mekong River. … Read article…
Tags: lost and found, Our Lady of Lourdes, river, sacred statue, statue
May 30 2008 in Cambodia by Paul
BBC News - UK So full is the Mekong that it reverses that river’s flow, forcing water back upstream and expanding the lake more than five-fold. This is the Tonle Sap, … Read article… BBC News portal
Tags: river, tonle sap, tributary of the mekong
May 27 2008 in Thailand by Paul
Bangkok Post - Thailand Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said yesterday he would go ahead with his planned project to divert water from the Mekong river to feed the water-starved … Read article… The Bangkok Post website
Tags: diversion, river, Samak Sundaravej, water
May 27 2008 in Vietnam by Paul
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam LONG AN — While the avian flu epidemic spreads nationwide, many big chicken farms in Mekong Delta provinces are still safe from the scourge due to their … Read article… Vietnam News website
Tags: avian flu, bird flu, mekong delta
May 24 2008 in Cambodia by Paul
Indigenous community members living along the Srepok river in Koh Myeul Leu and Koh Myeul Krom villages, Koh Ngek district, Mondulkiri province, joined for the first time the community fishery vote, organized in March jointly by … Read article… Visit WWF website
Tags: srepok river, tributary of the mekong, vote
May 24 2008 in Vietnam by Paul
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam A boat gridlock on the Mekong Delta was finally cleared at noon Wednesday. Local authorities are demanding canal improvements saying officials ignored dire … Read articles… Thanh Nien Daily website
Tags: boats, canal, gridlock, mekong delta