Announcements

The 24th MRC Council and 22nd Development Partner Consultative Group meetings will be held at Pattaya Resort in Chonburi Province of Thailand on November 28-30, 2017.The meeting will discuss a number of organizational matters including (i) cooperation between MRC and Dialogue Partners, Development Partners and ...

This week a regional workshop, hosted by Mekong Region Land Governance, will explore the challenges of large-scale agricultural investments to suggest solutions supportive of sustainable and pro-poor development, as well as economic growth.[] The workshop will bring together about 100 representatives from government, private sector, research ...

The fourth edition of MySociety’s The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference will be held on 18 and 19 April 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.Individuals and organisations are welcome to submit abstracts or workshop proposals of no more than 300 words by 2nd February 2018.Submissions are encouraged ...

Myanmar will be hosting the eighth meeting on indigenous medicine in the Greater Mekong Basin in the coming week, according to a senior health ministry official.The meeting will be held in Yangon and an exhibit on indigenous medicine and related products in the Greater Mekong ...

The side event is organised in partnership with the International Development Research Centre, McGill University, University of Notre Dam du Lac, Asian Institute of Technology, and the Africa Group of Negotiators Expert Support. Country delegates and experts will be sharing experiences on approaches to measuring ...

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has published its Global Land Outlook titled “THE BIG PICTURE: LAND UNDER PRESSURE”.The current pressures on land are huge and expected to continue growing: there is rapidly escalating competition between the demand for land functions that provide food, water, ...

The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) will host the sixth annual Executive Training on Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development from June 4-15, 2018 in New York City. The program is designed to equip public sector officials and civil society representatives from resource-rich developing countries with the necessary skills to promote ...

MRC received a one-day advance ‘emergency notification’ from China – its dialogue partner – about its planned water discharge from the Jinghong Reservoir to the lower Mekong River tomorrow, aimed to ensure power grid security.The discharge of the Jinghong reservoir on Lancang River will gradually ...

There are many stories about the Salween River. Myths from long ago. The hopes and tragedies of the recent past. The present day stories of a diversity of local lives and cultures. Dreams for a better future – some shared and some dissimiliar.  “Salween Stories” ...

Syan Technologies of Hong Kong have struck a deal with the government of Laos PDR to begin preparations regarding the deployment of a hydroelectric-powered cryptocurrency mining facility on the Mekong River, close to the border with neighbouring Thailand.Discussions have been underway now for a number ...