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Mekong clearance will destroy 'a few islets' 

Ling Leehua, president of CCCC Second Harbour Consultants Co Ltd, which won the concession from Beijing to conduct the survey, said only those islets obstructing the route would be removed, with some shallow sections of the river also being dredged. Keep reading ...

Bangkok Post News Staff

China’s Mekong plans threaten disaster for countries downstream

Thirty million people depend for a living on the Mekong, the great Asian river that runs through Southeast Asia from its origins in the snowfields of Tibet to its end in the delta region of Vietnam, where it fertilizes one of the world’s richest agricultural ...

Richard Bernstein

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