Jan 28 2011 in agriculture, aquaculture, Cambodia, climate change, ecosystem services, fish, flora and fauna, Governance, habitat, health, Laos, livelihoods, mekong delta, salinity, Thailand, tributary of the mekong, Vietnam, water services by Paul Stewart
VNS Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand yesterday (January 27) reached an agreement to protect water quality in the Mekong River against emerging threats. The Procedures for Water Quality agreement, the first of its kind and sealed by environment and water ministers from the four countries at the 17th annual meeting of the Mekong River [...]
Tags: 17th annual meeting of the Mekong River Commission Council, emerging threats, HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, water quality
Jan 26 2011 in Cambodia, communications, Governance, hydropower, Laos, mekong ecoregion, Thailand, The Mekong River, tributary of the mekong by Paul Stewart
MRC A breakthrough in sustainable hydropower development has been made with the launch of an innovative new assessment tool that helps identify, in as little as a week, the most sustainable sites, designs and operation rules for hydropower development in the lower Mekong River Basin. The Asian Development Bank, Mekong River Commission (MRC) and World [...]
Tags: ADB, cumulative impact assessments, ECO-Asia, Environmental Cooperation-Asia, HTC, Hydro Tasmania Consulting, Ian W Makin, Jeremy Bird, Marc Goichot, mekong river commission, MRC, Rapid Basin-wide Hydropower Sustainable Development Tool, RSAT, The Asian Development Bank, World Wide Fund for Nature, wwf
Jan 11 2011 in Cambodia, China, finance, Governance, hydropower, mekong ecoregion, resettlement, The Mekong River by Paul Stewart
By Marwaan Macan-Markar for IPS BANGKOK, Jan 10, 2011 (IPS) - A steady rise of new dams in Cambodia is becoming a platform for the country’s prime minister to showcase where the Southeast Asian kingdom’s ties with China - a late arrival among Cambodia’s foreign aid and development partners - is headed. “The hydropower dam [...]
Tags: EIA, environmental impact assesment, Focus on the Global South, foreign aid, Huadian Corporation, hun sen, international rivers, Kamchay Dam, NGO Forum on Cambodia, no-policy-conditions, Russei Chrum Krom Dam, Shalmali Guttal, transparency of information
Jan 6 2011 in Burma | Myanmar, Cambodia, China, communications, Governance, heritage, hydropower, livelihoods, Thailand, The Mekong River, tributary of the mekong, Vietnam by Paul Stewart
In dispatches from Milton Osborne on The Lowy Interpreter My research interest in the Mekong led me to purchase and read Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region, edited by Francois Molle, Tira Foran and Mira Kakonen. It is a book for specialists and as such provides detailed information and analysis not easily found elsewhere. The [...]
Tags: book, Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region, Francois Molle, Mira Kakonen, Tira Foran
Jan 5 2011 in Cambodia, conservation, finance, fish, flora and fauna, Governance, habitat, health, heritage, hydropower, Laos, livelihoods, mekong ecoregion, resettlement, Thailand, The Mekong River, Vietnam by Paul Stewart
Ame Trandem of International Rivers for The Bangkok Post When Zeus warned Pandora never to open the box given to her, the temptation proved too strong and Pandora forever unleashed into the world misery, suffering and sorrow. Today, much like this mythical Greek tragedy, the decision-makers of the Mekong sub-region face a similar temptation in [...]
Tags: Ame Trandem, mekong river commission, MRC, SEA, strategic environmental assessment, Xayaburi dam
Jan 4 2011 in agriculture, biodiversity, Cambodia, China, climate change, communications, conservation, deforestation, ecosystem services, festival, finance, fish, flooding, flora and fauna, food, Governance, habitat, health, heritage, hydropower, livelihoods, mekong ecoregion, pollution, The Mekong River, transport, water services by Paul Stewart
A condensed English version from www.vietecology.org by NGO THE VINH, M.D. PM HUN SEN AND MEKONG DAMS After the Ayeyawady-Chao Praya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) Summit on 11/17/2010 in Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen again dismissed all concerns about the impacts of the hydroelectric dams located upstream the Mekong. He asserted that the cycle [...]
Tags: Greater Mekong Subregion, hun sen, major rivers in asia, Prime Minister Hun Sen, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, The Brahmaputra River, The Dalai Lama, The Indus River, The Irrawaddy River, The Salween River, The Third Pole, The Tibetan Plateau, The Tonlé Sap Lake, The Tonlé Sap river, The Yangtze River, The Yellow River, Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserves program, Tyson Roberts
Jan 1 2011 in communications, finance, infrastructure, mekong delta, The Mekong River, tourism, transport, Vietnam by Paul Stewart
VOV Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung cut a ribbon to inaugurate the Can Tho International Terminal on January 1, 2011. This international terminal is located in an area of over 20,700 square metres. It will serve 3-5 million passengers every year, including C-level. It includes a 2-floor building, two stations and a parking place. The [...]
Tags: airport, Can Tho, Can Tho International Terminal, Nguyen Tan Dung