“Every time she smiles, I cry, because her mouth then seems to express the end of the pain of losses and malformation,” says the mother of a one-year-old girl. “The only wish in my life” says the middle-aged woman, who wishes to stay unnamed, “is to give her a smile.” She believes that an illness [...]
Unusual weather, falling demand and rising costs are combining to make this Tet a worrisome season for farmers. It is mid-December and the apricot plants in his garden are blooming prettily, but Nguyen Tuong Hau is not happy. “The apricots are supposed to blossom just 15 days before Tet [which falls on January 26 this [...]
Xinhua Net. 18 December 2008. According to Sinohydro Corporation, Yunnan Xiaowan Hydropower Station has already closed the dam gates, and started filling with water. This paved the way for power generation one year ahead of schedule. Xiaowan Hydropower Station is located in the middle reaches of Lancang River. Its installed capacity is 4200 MW, which [...]
Source: TBKTSG | Thanh Nien News Uncontrolled exploitation of groundwater sources in the nation’s rice granary, the Mekong Delta, is putting the vital resource at risk of complete depletion, experts have warned. The delta exploits in excess of a million cubic meters of groundwater per day, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) reported [...]
VIENTIANE, Dec 15 (Bernama) — The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) here last week to cooperate in the combating climate change in the region, Lao news agency, KPL, reported Monday. The MOU was signed by Jeremy Bird, Chief Executive [...]
The Greater Mekong, which is made up of 600,000 square kilometres of wetlands and rainforest along the Mekong River in Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and China, is also home to striped rabbits, bright pink millipedes laced with cyanide and a rat that was believed to have become extinct 11 million years ago. A host [...]
Written by John Schertow | Wednesday, 10 December 2008 The Mekong river is considered the lifeblood of southeast Asia. It starts out on the Qingzang plateau in Tibet, a place known as ‘roof of the world’, and makes its way through Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam before pouring itself into the China Sea. Along [...]
International Rivers Sinohydro Corporation is China’s leading dam builder, having built 70% of China’s hydropower projects. Sinohydro is involved in constructing many controversial big dams within China, such as China’s Three Gorges Project, Xiluodu and Xiangjiaba on the upper Yangtze River (aka Jinsha River), the Jinping and Xiaowan dams on the upper Mekong River, and [...]
Reported by Thanh Nien staff Doan Toi, general director of the Nam Viet Corporation in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, says the company has slashed 5,000 jobs, or nearly half of its workforce, over the past several months. Nam Viet, the country’s largest exporter of pangasius (tra and basa catfish), has earned more [...]