In the Mekong, questions arise over impact of favoring hydropower
On a bucolic stretch of the Mekong, near Cambodia’s northern border, people can tell you all about hydropower. The dam is why fish catches have been dropping, steadily, for the past few years. The dam is why so many young men have taken up logging ...
Abigail Seiff
Spirit of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation driving force in building peaceful, prosperous community: Cambodian FM
Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said the spirit of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) is the driving force in building a peaceful and prosperous community. During the first “Lancang-Mekong Week” (March 19-25), Prak Sokhonn told Xinhua in a joint interview that the Phnom Penh Declaration and ...
Global Times Reporter
ODM data & technology showcase event at Regional Land Forum
Open Development Mekong (ODM) will host a user engagement session, to walk participants through new features of the platform and seek feedback on the platform, tools and content offered (please bring a laptop to this parallel session).The Data & Technology Showcase Event will be held ...
Govt craves world heritage status for Thai sea salt
The government is preparing to propose Thai sea salt for inclusion on the United Nations’ global heritage list.The move comes after the Thai Sea Salt Development Committee urged the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry to offer up the unique product to the UN’s Food and Agriculture ...
The Nation Reporter
Chiang Mai to pursue Smart City model
Chiang Mai province has planned to pursue a Smart City model to improve the quality of life of local villagers.Chiang Mai Provincial Governor Supachai Iamsuwan said the northern province is on track to develop public facilities, promote tourism, and enhance the quality of life under ...
Tewit Kemtong
2018 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food, and Energy
The Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy is the largest annual knowledge-sharing event in the Greater Mekong. It presents research-based evidence to non-governmental organisations, policy-makers, the private sector, and development agencies. It does this through carefully designed and facilitated dialogues. The 2018 Greater Mekong ...
Road could affect future tiger habitat
Cambodia’s recently approved road project leading to the border with Vietnam in Mondulkiri would do irreversible damage to the province’s protected forest and threaten future attempts to reintroduce tigers to the Kingdom, according to the World Wildlife Fund. In a statement released yesterday, the group said ...
Boten SEZ eyeing investment of over US$11 billion
Boten Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Luang Namtha province is anticipating investment of at least US$10 billion to fully develop the site, according to a zone representative. The zone borders on Bohan in Yunnan province, China, and is part of the rapidly-growing economic cooperation between Laos ...
Souksamai Boulom
Bangkok motorists face new oil, gas charge
Bangkok-based petrol stations will be hit with a new local tax collected from their oil and gas sales at five satang a litre, starting on 15 October, as City Hall steps up efforts to pull in revenue for city development. It is the first time such a tax has ...
Four international airports need to be built in Laos
Laos will need to build four new international airports as the existing four of Wattay, Luang Prabang, Savan and Pakse will be unable to accommodate growing air transport in the coming decades, a minister told the cabinet. Minister of Public Works and Transport Dr Bounchanh Sinthavong ...
Booming trade benefits China, Vietnam
When Xiang Jiancheng started doing business in Dongxing two decades ago, trade in the China-Vietnam border city was still lukewarm. These days, however, more than 10,000 Chinese and Vietnamese walk across the border bridge every day to do business in bustling markets on both sides. Cross-border business ...
Labour Ministry moves to create more jobs in EEC
The Labour Ministry is speeding up efforts to create almost 400,000 jobs in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) to help those affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.This move came after the National Economic and Social Development Council indicated that unemployment in the country has risen due ...
The Nation Reporter
“Dialogue between Govt and enterprises to collect opinions, recommendations on difficulties and obstacles in business” Conference
The Private Economic Development Research Board (IV Board) will organize a conference themed “Dialogue between the Government and enterprises to collect opinions, recommendations on difficulties and obstacles in business”.The dialogue will be held at Caravelle Hotel on December 4, 2017.For more information and registration, please ...
IV Board
May presses PM on free and open elections
British Prime Minister Theresa May told Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to continue progress towards free and open elections in Thailand in line with international standards, including lifting restrictions on political parties at an early stage, a Downing Street spokesperson said. []With such a platform, he said, ...
Workshop discuses environmental protection measures for Mekong Delta
A delegation of US diplomats in Vietnam and the Center for Community Human Resource Development under An Giang University co-organised a workshop titled “Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) 2018: Protecting The Mekong Delta Environment”, in Can Tho city, from June 4 to 9. The workshop ...
Acmecs leaders adopt 5-year plan
The leaders of five Mekong River basin countries on Saturday adopted a five-year master plan focused on improving transport infrastructure, harmonising trade and investment rules, and human resources development. The 2019-23 master plan, the first of its kind, was endorsed by the leaders of Thailand, Cambodia, ...
China Focus: Wider opening-up brings closer ties with Asian neighbors
A grain of jasmine rice “jumps” to a freighter in Cambodia. It, together with thousands of its companions, will arrive in China in about a week. The jasmine rice from Cambodia sells very well in Yunnan, a border province in southwestern China. As a gateway ...
Myanmar fishermen protest Thai hires
The hiring of Thai helmsmen on Myanmar fishing boats has been criticised by the local fishing industry. Two Myanmar companies last year hired Thai captains on the grounds that they were familiar with the use of sonar to find fish. Faced with opposition by local fishermen, the ...
Cambodia agrees agro-industrial framework
The government has agreed to a new framework to increase the competitiveness of its agricultural sector in line with the recently launched Industrial Development Policy, state news agency AKP reported on 29 July. Ty Sokun, secretary of state at the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the ...
Vietnam to prosecute farmers using banned drugs in animal feed
Vietnam has introduced a new rule in the Penal Code under which the use of banned and harmful substances in animal farming can lead to strong punishments including prison terms of 20 years. Nguyen Van Viet, chief inspector of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, ...