International relations

Foreign ministers from six countries that straddle the Mekong River adopted a five-year action plan of cooperation when they met in Dali, southwest China, yesterday. The meeting of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) brought together senior diplomats from China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.Keep reading ...

The international shipping route on a key river running through China and southeast Asia is busy as usual, with boatmen wasting no time in loading and unloading cargo from ships.Keep reading   ...

China planned to utilise the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) as a driving force to build a community in the Mekong basin, while making clear that the LMC would not replace other cooperative schemes in the region, a senior Chinese official said yesterday.Keep reading ...

The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) will replace the longstanding cooperative structure of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) in developing the Mekong basin, a Chinese scholar said recently.Keep reading ...

China sees an imbalance in the agriculture development among the six countries in the Mekong basin and would push for utilisation of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) scheme to unlock its potential, a Chinese senior official said.Keep reading ...

Last week, the United States and Vietnam jointly launched the most recent iteration of what has become an annual disaster response exercise and exchange for the mainland Southeast Asian states along the Mekong River, one of the world’s largest, longest, and most resource-rich rivers. The ...

High-ranking diplomats from the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and China will convene on Friday at the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC), a relatively new mechanism to enhance regional cooperation. The latest edition of the LMC will take place this week in Yunnan, in southern China, bringing together ...

Water and environmental ministers from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam laid out their agenda for 2018 at the 24th Mekong River Commission Council in Pattaya.Keep reading ...

The Nanning-Singapore Economic Corridor, or China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor (CICPEC), is one of the six major corridors envisioned by China’s One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR). []OBOR isn’t the only cooperation mechanism in the region; as a relative newcomer, it has slotted in with other initiatives ...

Concerted efforts are needed to enhance cooperation between the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Việt Nam and the US in a number of areas, including education, energy security, food security, agriculture and health, Trần Quang Hoài, director of the Directorate of Disaster Management under ...