From Anucha Charoenpo in Ubon Ratchathani for The Bangkok Post Livelihoods are in tatters 15 years after the Pak Moon dam was built About 15 years ago, villagers set up the Assembly of the Poor to press their claims for help. They have organised rallies in Bangkok and set up makeshift tents around Government House [...]
Are all our fears coming true? A blonde, a river and not many dolphins? Fear not. Alexandra Cousteau does a very handsome media job of highlighting the issues and consequences of hydropower on the Mekong here… [youtube width="596" height="488"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84yq0WheI28[/youtube] and The Tonlé Sap here… [youtube width="596" height="488"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2QPXQ-eqGA[/youtube] As part of her Expedition Blue Planet/Blue Legacy [...]
From Viet Nam News in the delta… The sea level rise is threatening the country’s coastal communities, and changes to the climate are stressing ecosystems. A one-metre rise in sea level could drastically devastate nine key biodiversity hotspots in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta alone. Between 1951 and 2000, it is estimated that Viet Nam’s [...]
Let us be reminded… International Rivers | Shannon Lawrence and Carl Middleton | June 1, 2007 In 1994, the Mekong Secretariat (the precursor to the Mekong River Commission, or MRC) produced a study of “run-of-river” hydropower schemes for the lower Mekong. The study proposed nine projects that would produce a total of 13,350 megawatts of [...]
By P.Trong, H.Loi - Translated by Thu Minh Several farmers from the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang have reported an average 200-ton per hectare yield of sugarcane – a nationwide first. Farmer Truong Van Hien said before 2002, sugarcane productivity in Hiep Hung Commune was low compared to other areas. At that time, farmers [...]
Viet Nam News in the delta… High-speed boat services were launched in 1990 in the delta, where more than half of goods and one-third of passengers are transported by waterway. Boats often speed to compete for passengers, posing a danger to passengers and to waterway transport facilities. The problem is often caused by departure times [...]
Tien Phong reports from The Mekong Delta in Vietnam… VietNamNet Bridge – In the Mekong Delta nearly 4 million tones of rice husk is discharged to rivers and canals each year, causing serious pollution. According to local people, several years ago, rice husking factories often sold rice husks to brick and sugar kilns as fuel [...]
Lynette Lee Corporal from Chiang Rai “Climate change makes more sense when it is studied as part of development issues, like poverty reduction and sustainable development,” Prof. Jorma Koponen of the Helsinki University of Technology said. Unfortunately, Koponen added, the climate change phenomenon “has relatively little practical value or interest” in the region, preoccupied as [...]
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 | Cheang Sokha and Irwin Loy for the Phnom Penh Post Speaking at the opening of the inaugural National Forum on Climate Change, Hun Sen said less-developed countries like Cambodia had been severely affected by climate change and lacked the resources to tackle the problem on their own. “The rich countries [...]
Deutsche Press Agentur and published on Monsters & Critics Vientiane - Thailand accounts for about 90 per cent of the human trafficking from neighbouring Laos, with girls aged 12 to 18 making up a majority of the victims, state media reported Tuesday. Leik Boonwaat, representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to [...]