The Mekong River

VietNamNet VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has one of the world’s richest biodiversities and some of its rarest and most valuable animals, according to Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Hua Duc Nhi. However he said the “priceless resource”, which helped ensure environmental balance, had seriously deteriorated because of overlapping management [...]

MRC Vientiane, Lao PDR - Communities who live in the Mekong River Basin will significantly benefit from the improvements in flood forecasting and guidance that have been developed by the Flood Management and Mitigation Programme says the Mekong River Commission (MRC). “Although they may be resource rich, most of the 60 million people of the [...]

Vientiane - Laos has borrowed 50 million dollars from the Chinese government to build a bridge across the Mekong River, state media reported Tuesday. An agreement to finance the bridge, to be built in Pakbaeng district in the western province of Oudomxay which is divided by the Mekong River, was signed last week, the Vientiane [...]

Bernama HO CHI MINH CITY, May 24 (Bernama) — The impacts of climate change would severely affect the biodiversity of mangrove forests across the country, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported experts as saying. Addressing a forum on the impacts of climate change and biodiversity held on May 22, Dr Hoang Nghia Son, director of the [...]

Deng Shasha for Xinhua PHNOM PENH, May 23 (Xinhua) — At least nine Cambodians have died and about 300 others have been medically treated and hospitalized by diarrhea in Cambodia’s northeast province of Kratie, a provincial official said Sunday. Chhneang Vutha, chief of Kratie provincial health department, told Xinhua by telephone from the province that [...]

By Ekaphone Phouthonesy for the Vientiane Times Lao and Chinese investors have agreed to develop plans to build the Nam Mang 1 hydropower plant in the central province of Borikhamxay in light of positive results from a feasibility study on the project. Representatives from the Saytha Construction Company, Sichuan, China-based Dongfang Electric Corporation and Hong [...]

Saigon Daily Over the past five months, seawater has penetrated deep into many coastal provinces in the Mekong Delta, affecting thousands of hectares of rice and causing a severe shortage of fresh water. Seawater has entered areas as far inland as 50-70 km from the sea, making average salinity of bodies of freshwater 2-3 percent [...]

Tuoi Tre A fisherman in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu caught a 13-ton grey whale Tuesday and brought it ashore for burial. Nguyen Van Hai said the whale had struggled in his net but was dead by the time he pulled it in. He and other fisherman spent more than 17 hours to [...]

Thanh Nien Vietnam’s industry authorities have ordered cities and provinces nationwide to put an end to small to medium hydropower plant projects that are not efficient and harm the environment. Around 800 projects in the country will be reviewed, local news website VietNamNet reported Tuesday. Projects whose reservoirs can cause floods and those that occupy [...]

Port Strategy The historic capital city port of Phnom Penh is being reborn after years of neglect, reports Michael King The port of Phnom Penh is not the usual subject of a major port focus by Port Strategy. It’s not that big, it’s not breaking any new technological ground and it’s not even near the [...]