Le Salon des Créateurs. 55 Street 178 - Near National Museum Thursday Feb. 4, 11:00 Cambodia’s most famous designers are meeting to bring alive a space in the art of Phnom Penh in a unique and elegant colonial mansion surrounded by a lush tropical garden. From February 4th to February 7th, near the National Museum. [...]
VIENTIANE, 28 JAN (KPL) -In collaboration with Japanese experts, the Livestock and Fishery Department has sent a team of experts to conduct an in-depth survey on the habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins and their population at the southern tip of the Mekong River in Laos. The survey will pave a way to further implementing the Irrawaddy [...]
By Rosalia Sciortino for Mekong Currents BANGKOK, Dec 31 (IPS Asia-Pacific) - As more severe and irregular floods occur in the countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), public discussion on their possible causes has been escalating. A point of contention is whether floods along the Mekong River and other regional rivers are related to [...]
KHOUTH SOPHAKCHAKRYA for The Phnom Penh Post An Irrawaddy dolphin that was pregnant with twins was found dead on Saturday in Kampong Cham province, marking the second recorded river dolphin death this month, a conservation expert told the Post on Monday. Touch Seang Tana, chairman of Cambodia’s Commission to Conserve Mekong River Dolphins and Develop [...]
From Breaking Travel News In 1992, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) pulled off Visit ASEAN Year, one of the world’s most spectacular brand-building and marketing campaigns in the history of travel & tourism. Today, in a remarkable admission of its own failure to build on the momentum, the ASEAN tourism industry leaders claim [...]
[youtube width="598" height="488"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdMAHvCbWw[/youtube] Since 2006, Carl Middleton, International Rivers’ Mekong Program Coordinator, has been working to protect the Mekong River from destructive dams. He’s traveled throughout the region to get to know our partners and learn from local people about how important the river is to their lives. These experiences have made him more committed [...]
www.exploremekong.org, relaunches it’s consumer website today with a handsome booking engine for any affiliate. Good coverage and another practical step in the right direction for The Mekong brand that Mekong Tourism are attempting to develop and deliver from Bangkok. Those ASEAN members without The Mekong in there midst, I feel may have driven them to [...]
From AFP Governments must act decisively to prevent the extinction of tigers in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong region, where numbers have plunged more than 70 percent in 12 years, the WWF said Tuesday. The wild tiger population across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam has dropped from an estimated 1,200 in 1998 — the last [...]
By ALEX ELLGEE for The Irrawaddy Around 50 Hmong refugees who were forcibly repatriated by Thailand to Laos on Dec. 28 have been imprisoned in Paksan jail, according to the Fact Finding Commission (FFC), an American based NGO. It is suggested that the group may have been isolated because of their role as leaders in [...]
Cambodians hold their breath against dam waters, China, overfishing By Nicholas Dynan (Tufts University) Student Correspondent Corps. CHONG KHNEAS, Cambodia — The crowd waits on the muddy banks of the lake in a throng of motorbikes, trucks, bicycles and people. When the colorful fishing boats slide onto shore, the fish buyers clamber onto the decks [...]