The Mekong River

I was just sent a link to this article ‘Mekong – Cửu Long 2011. A Look Forward into the Next Half Century’, by Long Beach writer and physician Ngo The Vinh. It reads like an Op Ed but throws up some challenges to the present status quo surrounding the governance of the Mekong as a [...]

Summer Walker for The Phnom Penh Post The Cambodian National Mekong Commission met with local government officials and NGO representatives yesterday in Kratie province at Cambodia’s first consultative meeting regarding the Xayaburi dam planned for Northern Laos. Peou Vuthyrak, national environmental program coordinator for CNMC, said the meeting was organised so local-level representatives could address [...]

SGGP–Translated by Hoang Yen Tiger shrimp and tra catfish prices have reached an all time high in the Mekong Delta region after Tet (Lunar New Year). Bac Lieu Province on February 9 saw 20 shrimps weighing one kilogram going for VND250,000-260,000, 30 shrimps weighing one kilogram for VND190,000-200,000 and 40 shrimps weighing a kilogram for [...]

By Michelle L. Chang for The Asia Foundation For over one million people, Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake is the pulse of life. Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake is a natural floodplain reservoir and drains into the Mekong River via the Tonle Sap River. Every year, the lake observes a phenomenal natural occurrence: the Mekong rises [...]

By building dams on the upper Mekong, China has triggered a revival in hydropower ambitions downstream. Philip Hirsch for China Dialogue. Much has been written on the downstream impact of China’s dams on the Mekong River, which flows through or along the borders of Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand after exiting China (where it [...]

ADB MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Governments in Asia and the Pacific need to prepare for a large increase in climate-induced migration in the coming years, says a forthcoming report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Typhoons, cyclones, floods and drought are forcing more and more people to migrate. In the past year alone, extreme weather in [...]

The Bangkok Post Private tourism operators have called on six governments in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) to speed up work on a single visa for tourists visiting the area. Representatives from the public and private sectors in the six GMS countries agreed at a forum to push their governments to speed up the single-visa [...]