Environment and natural resources
Germany supports resources management in Mekong River basin
The Government of Germany has supported the implementation of two joint projects between Cambodia and Laos and between Cambodia and Thailand, on natural resources management in the Mekong River Basin. According to the Mekong River Commission (MRC), the projects aim to better manage natural resources and ...
VNA Reporter
New Mekong guidelines lacking, government official says
A Cambodian representative to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) said yesterday that new guidelines for hydropower development agreed to late last month don’t fully address threats to the health of the imperiled waterway. Keep reading ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
Greater Mekong states endorse joint five-year plan
The environment ministers of the six Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) states have endorsed the Core Environment Programme (CEP) Strategic Framework and Action Plan for 2018 to 2022 for member countries to work together on environmental issues and environmentally friendly development. Keep reading ...
PRATCH RUJIVANAROM
Mekong River Commission to revise dam guidelines
Hydropower developers and representatives of the Mekong River Commission member countries met last week for the last time before finalising guidelines to mitigate the negative impacts of dam construction on the Mekong River, though conservationists expressed doubts about whether such guidelines would make a difference. Keep ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
Sediment loss in Mekong River killing southern delta
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta is home to nearly 18 million Vietnamese people, and is the most important rice field and fishing region of the country. Việt Nam cannot afford to lose it as an agricultural powerhouse, but may be unable to stop just that ...
VNS Reporter
Technology can drive green growth in Mekong region
In the last 20 years, rapid economic growth in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) has reduced poverty and brought prosperity to many of its 420 million people. Keep reading ...
PAVIT RAMACHANDRAN
Shopkeepers rush to make hay as Mekong unveils its dry side
Local people have built makeshift food and drink shops on sand dunes in the middle of the Mekong River in the That Phanom district of Nakhon Phanom province, as a source of income during the upcoming dry season. Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
Vietnamese farmers are migrating en masse to escape climate change
The Vietnamese Mekong Delta is one of Earth’s most agriculturally productive regions and is of global importance for its exports of rice, shrimp, and fruit. The 18 million inhabitants of this low-lying river delta are also some of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change. Keep ...
Alex Chapman/Van Pham Dang Tri
Flood-based livelihoods to help Mekong Delta’s water storage
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched a project on January 26 on flood-based livelihoods in support of the water storage strategy in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
World View: China’s Mekong River Dams Criticized for Affecting Other Countries’ Livelihoods
Multiple dams and hydropower projects being built in China on the Lancang Jiang River, which becomes the Mekong River when it leaves China, are having a significant effect on the livelihoods and living conditions of millions of people along the Mekong River in downstream countries. ...
