The Bangkok Post Like most rivers in this country which are fast drying up under the scorching summer sun, the Mekong is no exception. This otherwise mighty river has shrunk substantially in size and its once forceful flow is now down to a trickle in many lower stretches of the river, to the extent that [...]
by Milton Osborne from the Lowy Interpreter You wouldn’t know it from the Australian press, but there is a major drought in southeastern China producing devastating effects in three provinces: Yunnan, Guangxi and Guzhou. Described as the worst drought in 60 years, its effects are most serious in Yunnan, where there has been no worthwhile [...]
From VietNamNet/VNS Over 4,000ha of protected forests in Bac Lieu are under serious threat as poor people cut down trees looking for sam dat, a kind of worm that lives in trunks and roots. VnnNews - Over 4,000ha of protected forests in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu are under serious threat as poor [...]
Edited by Lin Zhi for Xinhua KUNMING, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — At least 21 Chinese grounded boats have been rescued on the Mekong River, a cross-border river flowing out of China from southwest China’s Yunnan Province, the marine affairs bureau in Yunnan said on Tuesday. The bureau’s subsidiary in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, which borders [...]
By Souksakhone Vaenkeo for The Vientiane Times Seven irrigation projects on the Mekong River in Vientiane are encountering insufficient water inflow because the river level is falling more rapidly than usual, an official said on Friday. Some 3,680 hectares of rice fields in Hadxaifong and Pakngum districts irrigated by the seven irrigation systems are affected [...]
By Kultida Samabuddhi for The Bangkok Post The government has been urged to hold talks with Beijing on the impact of Chinese dams on the upper Mekong River following recent sharp drops in the river’s water flow. The Save the Mekong Coalition - an alliance of environmental groups and riverside communities monitoring ecological changes in [...]
BREAKING NEWS from The Nation Thailand will ask the Mekong River Commission to negotiate with China to release more water from its Mekong dams to alleviate drought downstream. Saksit Tridej said parts of the downstream Mekong running through Thailand and neighbouring countries had run dry apparently because China trapped water on the river for generating [...]
By LAWI WENG for The Irrawaddy Fifteen Burmese anti-narcotics agents were killed near Tachilek after drug traffickers ambushed them on the Mekong River on Saturday, according to a source at the local police department. Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Monday, the source said that the 15 policemen were killed while on patrol boats on the [...]
Damn those dams By Veera Prateepchaikul, former editor of The Bangkok Post Ever since the completion of a few dams across the Mekong river in China, the once mighty river, which flows through all the riparian countries except China, has diminished to a trickle every dry season. The situation this year is worse than the [...]
On a 3,000-mile journey from the river’s source on the Tibetan plateau to its mouth at the South China Sea, NPR’s Michael Sullivan and photographer Christopher Brown examine the turbulent history and uncertain future along the Mekong. All Five Episodes here Credit: Reporter: Michael Sullivan; Photographer: Christopher Brown for NPR; Producers: Coburn Dukehart, Maureen Pao, [...]