The Mekong River

FishUpdate.com THE Findus Group, which owns Young’s Seafood, has hit back at comments by Scottish Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson’s health concerns comments about Vietnamese Pangasius (also known as basa). Mr Stevenson said in a keynote speech to a conference on aquaculture in the European Parliament recently that the Mekong where pangasius was farmed “as one [...]

LAURA HODGES for The Phnom Penh Post EIGHT intrepid travellers are halfway through their journey paddling down the Mekong River from the Laos border to Phnom Penh, hoping to reach the capital before next weekend’s water festival. Arriving in Kratie last week, the group of American journalists and photographers stopped to update their blog at [...]

Wassana Nanuam for The Bangkok Post The Thai-Lao length of the Mekong is a hotbed of criminal activity A crack police squad is on a mission to suppress trans-border crime syndicates preying on the bustling trade across the Thai-Lao length of the Mekong River. The river has seen several crossings by a wide range of [...]

By WAI MOE for The Irrawaddy Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s popularity appears to be increasing in the wake of a general election widely rejected as a sham and her release from house arrest on Saturday after a total of 15 years and 20 days in detention out of the past 21 years [...]

VNS HA NOI – Much-delayed floods have arrived in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta where many farmers rely on the seasonal inundation for their livelihood. Paddy fields near the one of the Mekong’s two major tributaries, the Hau, or Rear River, that were beginning to dry are now submerged. The occupants of small boats ply [...]

This is great news… from The Bangkok Post New boat service will take passengers from Chiang Rai to China via Laos Thailand’s first passenger boat to cross border points on the Mekong River is to be launched, promising smooth sailing for tourism. The national flags of China, Laos, Burma and Thailand fluttered in the stern [...]

AP by way of The Independent Buddhist monks in Cambodia will be banned from taking part in a water festival this month to prevent undignified behaviour such as mingling with scantily-clad women and seeing couples kissing, the country’s chief monk said today. During the Boat Racing Festival between November 20 and 22, monks will be [...]

Viet Nam News The late arrival of the flood season has caused river water levels to become seriously low, meaning a shortage of fish for farmers, reduced water for rice crops and high prices. Le Hien reports. Viet Nam is the second largest rice exporter in the world. The country exported 6 million tonnes of [...]

Bernama The Vietnam Architecture Association has launched a design competition challenging domestic and overseas Vietnamese architects to come up with an innovative idea for building houses in flood-prone areas, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. In particular, the central and the Mekong Delta regions will be targeted. Chairman of the association Nguyen Tan Van said the [...]

Will Baxter and Cheang Sokha for The Phnom Penh Post Cambodia will have a difficult time coping with the enormous loss of fish and fisheries-based livelihoods if a proposed set of hydropower dams is constructed on the lower Mekong River – according to a recently released impact study, even if it adheres to expert recommendations. [...]