CHEANG SOKHA and SAM RITH for The Phnom Penh Post Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out at unnamed environmental activists yesterday at the groundbreaking of a 338-megawatt hydropower dam in Koh Kong province. Speaking at the site of the Stung Russey Chrum Krom dam, which will span the eponymous stream in Koh Kong’s Mondul Seima [...]
Milton Osborne for The Lowy Interpreter Since my last post detailing the strong arguments against building dams on the Mekong’s mainstream below China, further grist has been added to the anti-dam mill through the release by the Mekong River Commission (MRC) of two reports by Panels of Experts on basin development plans previously submitted to [...]
VNEconomyNews.com The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers has rejected a decision by the World Wide Fund for Nature to place tra, the Vietnamese cat fish, in the red list of produce that are farmed/made in filthy/unhygienic conditions or traded illegally. It moved it from a yellow list in its latest consumer guides for [...]
International Rivers More than 100,000 people continue to suffer project impacts Amidst much fanfare, French President Nicholas Sarkozy and senior World Bank and Asian Development Bank officials are expected to attend a gala ceremony inaugurating the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in Laos this week. But for the tens of thousands of people who are [...]
By Ozgur Tore for FTNnews Thailand and Cambodian signed on November 16 a visa exemption agreement during the 4th Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy Summit in Phnom Penh. The visa-free entry will be effective from 16 December, allowing citizens of both countries to visit without having to apply for a visa, either at the embassy, [...]
The fourth and penultimate draft of the Development Strategy for the Lower Mekong Basin from Mekong River Commission for review. In point 2 of the Executive Summary… “Developments in the Lancang-Upper Mekong Basin in China and in the LMB are now changing the Mekong’s flow regime. To meet growing demand for goods and services, the [...]
By Donald R. Winslow © 2010 News Photographer magazine SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA (December 3, 2010) – Photojournalist Go Takayama, 28, a visual journalist from Japan who is a graduate of Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication and who has interned at several American newspapers, has been jailed in Cambodia after taking pictures for a story [...]