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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 ...
Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Training Center launched in Cambodia
The China-funded Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Training Center, along with the Cambodia Luban Workshop, was inaugurated here on Sunday. The center was established under the cooperation between the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NPIC) and China’s Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences. It is located in ...
75th joint patrol on Mekong River starts
The 75th joint patrol on the Mekong River, with law enforcers from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, started Tuesday. Eight vessels and more than 100 law enforcement personnel participated in the patrol between China’s Guanlei port and waters near the Golden Triangle. Keep reading ...
Lancang River formed 17 mln years ago: study
The Lancang River, the world’s twelfth longest river and seventh longest in Asia, was formed around 17 million years ago, according to the latest study conducted by the Department of Resources and Environment at Lanzhou University, which is based in northwestern China’s Gansu Province. Keep reading ...
Myanmar state counselor leaves for Japan to attend Mekong-Japan summit
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi left Friday on a working visit to Japan and will attend the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo, said official sources. Suu Kyi is paying a six-day visit to Japan and will hold bilateral talks with Abe on enhancement ...
China-Laos railway completes first continuous beam block construction on Mekong River
The concrete casting for the first block of the Luang Prabang cross-Mekong River super major bridge’ continuous beam along the China-Laos Railway was completed on Sept. 17, the Chinese contractor told Xinhua on Saturday. Yan Haiyong, CPC party secretary of the China Railway No.8 Engineering ...
74th joint patrol on Mekong River starts
The 74th joint patrol on the Mekong River by law enforcement from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand began on Tuesday. Three Chinese vessels participated in the mission, which is aimed at reducing crime in the region. Keep reading ...
Lao government, World Bank assess renewable energy development in southern river basin
The Lao government and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, are conducting a basin-wide Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) of renewable energy development in southern Laos’ Xekong River Basin. According to local online newspaper Vientiane Times on Sunday, it is the ...
Mekong countries attend friendship border exchange program in Vietnam
Delegations from all six members of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), including Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam participated in the third friendship border exchange program in Vietnam’s Hanoi capital on Saturday evening. The exchange program is of importance because it has helped regional countries ...
Mekong floods claim 18 lives in Cambodia: spokesman
Mekong floods have killed 18 people, including eight children, in Cambodia over the past four weeks, a disaster control spokesman said Monday. Keo Vy, a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said six provinces along the Mekong River — Stung Treng, Kratie, ...
