The Mekong River

If you’re in Phnom Penh this week, pop into The Bodega, 32 Sothearos Boulevard (opposite the National Museum). Daily between 12 - 12 midnight. Video and slide projections from 8pm. Exhibitions sponsored by Melon Rouge Photo Agency. Refreshments and Tapas Bar.

VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung demanded Friday Northern and Southern Food Corporations buy one million tons of coarse rice. There is now 500,000 - 600,000 tons of husked rice in the Mekong Delta. The corporations have been given until February next year to complete the purchase. The Prime Minister also requested that [...]

It’s a familiar story - two prosperous families in the Mekong Delta have arranged a marriage between their children but the daughter would rather marry a man in the city than a man in the countryside. Hai Q. in Cai Be District in the Mekong Delta Tien Giang Province, and Sau T. the owner of [...]

27/11/2008 VietNamNet Bridge - Unable to find buyers for their harvest, Mekong Delta rice farmers are storing huge amounts of rice in their homes, at the same time as tons of tasty rice is imported into Vietnam from Thailand and Cambodia every day. For their last crop, Mekong Delta farmers grew low-quality rice varieties, such [...]

BEIJING, Nov. 25 — With the in-depth Sanjiangyuan ecological protection & construction project and enhancing of public’s consciousness to protect wild animals, environment in the vicinity of the Sanjiangyuan Area is greatly improved while the amount of wild animals is picking up. With all-out efforts, Sanjiangyuan is really worthy of the name-”fairyland of wild animal”. [...]

25-11-2008 HA NOI — The Mekong Region Water Dialogue (MRWD) was recently launched to improve water governance for the benefit of local livelihoods and the natural environment. Water governance will be improved through the use of multi-stakeholder dialogue around specific water-related issues at the sub-national, national and regional levels, said Aban Marker Kabraji, regional director [...]

November 1, 2008 | Carl Middleton, International Rivers Chinese hydropower developers and financiers have figured prominently in the renewed push for hydro development in the Mekong Region. This feature article published in the journal Watershed introduces the new hydropower proponents, describes the regional context that has seen warming relations between Chinese and the Mekong Region’s [...]

22-11-2008 MEKONG DELTA — The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta is facing serious environmental threats, as an increasing number of industrial zones (IZs) is leading to escalating levels of pollution. The delta now has 20 industrial zones and 177 industrial complexes. Despite all these projects, the region’s industrial production is still weak, as it has difficulties [...]

OXFAM Viet Nam is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. The government’s impressive achievements in pulling millions of people out of poverty are seriously jeopardised by the likely increase in extreme weather events such as severe rainfall and drought, and by slow climate changes like sea level rises and [...]

By Tran Dinh Thanh Lam CAN THO, Nov 21 (IPS) - While arguments against the development of hydropower dams on the Mekong River and its tributaries have from time to time emerged in Vietnam’s state-controlled press, rarely have government officials been as open with their criticism as they have in recent months. In late September, [...]